Vocab
the available body of facts and information that supports whether a claim is true or false.
What is Evidence?
The variable being measured.
What is the Dependent Variable?
Water Use
What is Environmental Indicator?
The two nutrients which cause eutrophication.
What are Phosphates and Nitrates?
The best way to study, as opposed to passive reading.
What is Active Recall?
The process by which an environment is destroyed, leading to a loss in its ability to support life and economic productivity.
What is Land Degradation?
The group beng tested.
What is the Experimental Group?
The amount of doctors per capita
What is Social Indicator?
Eutrophication causes which toxic plant to grow?
What is Algae?
The body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment (Ex. Shivering when cold to stay warm)
What is Homeostasis?
The measured data of the impact of an individual or community on the environment.
What is Ecological Footprint?
The variable that the scientist is changing.
What is Independent Variable?
Population Density
What is Social Indicator?
The three sources of contamination in the lake.
What are Dog Park, City Waste, and Factories?
The amount of Earths the average American needs to sustain their ecological footprint.
What is Four?
The ability to meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of the future.
What is Sustainability?
This is used as data to compare to the experimental group to see if the independent variable resulted in significant change.
What is Control Group?
The three types of indicators.
What are Environmental, Economic, and Social?
The easiest way to fix eutrophication.
What is reduce the source of contamination?
The study technique in which you take a complex definition and write it in simple and understandable terms.
What is Feynman Technique?
A mutual relationship or connection between two variables
What is Correlation?
The formula to calculate slope.
What is y2-y1 divided by x2-x1?
Oil exports
What is Economic Indicator?
Environmentalists, Business Owners, and Politicians are examples of...
What are Stakeholders?
The five steps of the scientific method.
What is Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion?