Research Vocab
The science involved in making connections for no short term application, creating data for the future
What is basic science?
What is Non-Dogmatic?
This term is used in describing the amount of land is needed for supporting humans, for resources and waste management.
What is the ecological footprint?
A well educated, proposed statement explaining a natural occurrence that is able to be tested
What is a hypothesis?
The term used for a species that has no living members
What is applied science?
The name for the scientific process of Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusions, and Results
What is the scientific method?
This part of the world environment has been critically damaged by CO2/greenhouse gas emissions from humans
What is the atmosphere?
Often expressed in formulas and not so much an explanation, these describe specific elemental reactions
What is a scientific law?
What are greenhouse gases?
The method used to arrive at a specific result based off of general principles
What is deductive reasoning?
The term used to describe how theories and hypotheses can be changed over time by different parties to stay correct
What is self-correcting?
The variety of life found in any ecosystem or the world, ours is suffering from human development/pollution
What is biodiversity?
The pathway of scientific study focused on observing, exploring, and discovering
What is descriptive science?
What is a precautionary principle?
The name used for any part of an experiment that can vary or change for different measurements in the experiment.
The important attribute scientists must apply to their work so others can access it for further research
What is transparent?
The act of people clearing out whole areas of plant life to make room for crops, often in rain forests
Pathway of scientific study that has both a question/problem and a testable solution
What is hypothesis-based science?
The term used for the most common sources of energy that are not sustainable for the Earth (coal, natural gas, oil)
What is nonrenewable energy? (What is fossil fuels?)
The name for the parts of an experiment that are the same for all subjects and throughout the whole duration
What is a control variable?
Human development that can supply for humans in the present without compromising the world for the next generations
What is sustainable development?
What are peer reviewed articles?
The interdisciplinary field looking at ecology, biology, chemistry etc. as well as sociopolitical relationships to the environment
What is environmental studies?