Scientific Method
Making Decisions
What is ENV SCI?
ENV. & Society
ENV. History
100
This is a piece of information we gather using our senses.
What is an observation?
100
These are principles or standards we consider to be important.
What is a value?
100
This is the study of how living things interact with their nonliving envrionment.
What is environmental science?
100
This basic rule of economics states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth.
What is supply and demand.
100
This person influenced the manufacturing of cars, and supported the use of biofuels.
who is henry ford?
200
A testable idea or explanation that leads to a scientific investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This value is considered when making a decision about the gain or loss of money or jobs.
What is economic/economical?
200
This is the study of the impact of humans on the environment.
What is environmental science?
200
These types of countries have higher average incomes, slower population growth, and usually higher consumption patterns.
What is a developed nation?
200
This disease struck in 1849 killing 5,000 people in NYC. This disease was spread quickly through the city because of over-population and inadequate sanitation.
What is cholera?
300
this is the group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
300
When considering a scientific value when making an environmental decision, one might look at the information that an experimentor gathers, or sometimes called...
What is data?
300
Because environmental science involves studying human populations, many enviornmental scientists consider this field of science that includes economics, law, politics, and geography.
What are the social sciences?
300
This shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person by estimating land use for crops, forest products, housing, etc.
What is an ecological footprint?
300
During this time period, society was changed due to an increase in the efficiency of agriculture, industry, and transportation.
what is the industrial revolution?
400
This is what the experimenter is manipulating or what is varied in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
400
In scientific terms, this is the probability of an unwanted outcome.
What is risk?
400
This branch of science helps environmental scientists understand the nature of pollutants.
What is chemistry?
400
In this essay, Hardin argued that when a resource is left unregulated that individuals tend to overuse and eventually deplete the resource.
What is the tradgedy of the commons?
400
During early human civilizations these types of people affected the land by hunting, slashing and burning prairies, and may have contributed to the extinction of large mammals.
who are hunter-gatherers?
500
This is a logical statement about what will happen if the hypothesis is correct.
What is a prediction?
500
Some counties in California have banned the use of this product because it is nonbiodegradable, and there are alternatives to using this product.
What is polystyrene?
500
This field of science may help enviornmental scientists understand how Earth's climate has changed in the past by studying fossils.
What is paleontology?
500
This is the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability?
500
By 1909 this president created 42 million acres of preserved national forests and was the first to create a bird sanctuary.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?