Environment & Resources
This includes forests, people, buildings, and everything around us.
What is the environment?
Data expressed using numbers or measurements.
What is quantitative data?
Human population increased slowly for thousands of years, then began doing this rapidly.
What is increasing?
A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.
What is environmentalism?
A possible explanation that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
A resource that forms much more slowly than humans use it.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
“There are 3 tulips” is this type of data. Q____
What is quantitative data?
This revolution caused an early major increase in human population.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
The scientific study of the environment and how the natural world works.
What is environmental science?
This type of study changes one variable to test its effect.
What is a controlled experiment?
Wave energy is this type of natural resource.
What is a renewable resource?
The variable that the scientist intentionally changes.
What is the independent variable?
This later revolution caused the rate of population growth to increase even more.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A human-centered environmental worldview.
What is anthropocentrism?
In this type of study, scientists observe and collect data without changing variables.
What is an observational study?
Natural gas belongs to this resource category.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The variable that is measured as a result of the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This disease caused a major historical decrease in human population.
What is the bubonic plague?
Science can change its explanations over time because it has this important ability.
What is the ability to self-correct and improve?
In an experiment, this group does not receive the treatment being tested.
What is the control group?
Explain why humans should not be considered separate from “the environment.”
What is because humans are part of nature and exist within the environment?
Soil, water, air, and sunlight kept the same in an experiment are called these.
What are controlled variables?
Name one problem scientists predict could result from uncontrolled population growth.
What is food shortages OR conflict over limited resources?
This worldview places humans at the center of environmental decision-making.
What is anthropocentrism?
Explain why scientific ideas may change over time.
What is new evidence can cause scientists to revise or improve explanations?