Chapter 2
An example would be a flow chart
What is a conceptual model?
Another word is average.
What is mean?
Beautiful or pleasing
Aesthetic
relationship between the availability and the worth of resources.
The ultimate source for almost ALL organisms on earth.
What is the sun?
An example of this type of model would be model of a dinosaur.
What is
physical model
This is the chance that an unwanted event will occur.
What is risk?
This is the study of humans and use of natural resources, humans and the nonliving environment, and how humans alter the environment.
What is environmental science?
What is an herbivore?
These are the characteristics of a good experiment.
What are
using a control and testing a single variable
Collection and classification of data in the form of numbers.
What is statistics?
human leisure activities
What is recreational?
The merits and expenses involved in implementing an environmental solution.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
These organisms get their solar or other energy indirectly.
What is a consumer?
States what is likely to happen and makes logical sense.
What is a hypothesis?
It is important that this be large enough to give an accurate estimate for the whole population.
What is a sample?
the gain or loss of money or jobs
What is economic?
The time period in which most of today's environmental issues were created.
What is the industrial revolution?
Largest reservoir of nitrogen that is unusable by most organisms.
What is the atmosphere?
The steps in the decision making model.
What are
gather information
consider values
explore consequences
make a decision
This is used when there are many variables, can create digital images, and show how a system works.
What is a mathematical model?
What is ethical?
Examples of how to create a more sustainable world
Various answers - Teacher Discretion.
An example of an organism that would occupy the level on an energy pyramid with the most energy.
Various answers - any plants