Introduction to environmental science
The process of gaining knowledge about the natural world
What is The nature of science?
A class that studies matter and energy
What is Physics?
Mechanization, sheer size, and rate and scale of change being unprecedented
What is Human Interference?
Degrading dirt
What is soil?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter in general?
Defined steps to research the world
What is the Scientific method?
A class that studies Earth in general
What is Geology?
Something that meets the need of the present when not effecting the future
What is Sustainable Development?
Broken down garbage
What is Waste?
The same type of matter that takes up space also
What is an Element?
A proposed explanatory statement to be tested
What is a Hypothesis?
A class that studies life in general
What is Biology?
People proceeding forward after a threat to all humans and animals when losing species
What is a Precautionary Principle?
Losing species on Earth
What is Biodiversity?
The smallest component of an element
What is an Atom?
What is the Scientific Theory?
A class that studies substances and interactions
What is Chemistry?
How we look at the world through our own mind
What are frontier ethics?
A number of protons
What is an Atomic Number?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur
What is CHNOPS?
Describe how elements of nature will behave under certain circumstances
What is a Scientific Law?
A class that studies all the classes together such as Biology, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry
What is Environmental Science?
People being centered around Earth with life
What are sustainable ethics?
Number of Protons and Neutrons in an atom?
What is a Mass Number?
2 or more elements chemically bonded to make a new substance
What is a Molecule?