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Chapter 13
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An area in stratosphere where ozone is highly concentrated.
What is ozone layer?
100
The long term prevailing weather conditions at a particular place based upon records taken.
What is climate?
100
The study of how humans interact with the environment.
What is Environmental Science?
100
A logical statement about what will happen if the hypothesis is correct.
What is Prediction?
100
Information that a scientist gathers during and experiment.
What is Data?
200
A name given to the short term, periodic change in the location of warm and cold masses sin the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
200
The cool phase of the El- Nino southern oscillation.
What is la nina?
200
The study of how living things interact with each other and with nonliving environment.
What is Ecology
200
A testable explanation for an observation.
What is Hypothesis?
200
Reliable associations between two or more events.
What is Correlations?
300
Hydrocarbons in which some or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by chlorine and fluorine.
What is chlorofluorocarbons?
300
Gases that absorb and radiate heat
What is greenhouse gases?
300
practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, transportation, and other purposes.
What is Agriculture?
300
A procedure designed to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
What is Experiment?
300
The number by adding up the data for a given characteristic and dividing the sum by the number of individuals.
What is Mean?
400
Thinning of stratospheric ozone that occurs over the poles during the spring.
What is ozone hole?
400
A cloud that forms at altitudes of about 21,000 m during the Antarctic winter or early spring, when air temperatures drop below -80 degrees Celsius.
What is polar stratospheric clouds?
400
The number and variety of species that live in an area.
What is Biodiversity?
400
The group that does not receive the experimental group treatment.
What is Control group?
400
The collection and classification of data that are in the form of numbers.
What is Statistics?
500
Gradual increase in the average global temperature that is due to a higher concentration of gas such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
500
requires developed countries to decrease emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average of 5% below there 1990 levels by 2012
What is Kyoto Protocol?
500
An undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival. or activities of humans or other organisms.
What is Pollution?
500
The group that receives the experimental group treatment.
What is Experimental group?
500
The relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population.
What is Distribution?