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Env. Sci.
Env. Over Time
Env. Problems
Economics
Models
100
The study of how humans interact with the environment.
What is Environmental Science
100
Name for people who obtained food by collecting plants and hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains.
What are Hunter-Gatherers
100
Any natural materials used by humans.
What is a natural resource?
100
The greater demand for a limited supply of something.
What is the law of supply and demand?
100
This is a three-dimensional model you can touch.
What is a physical model?
200
The study of how livings things interact with each other.
What is Ecology?
200
The practice of growing, breeding and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, transportation and other purposes.
What is Agricultural Revolution?
200
An undesired change in the air, water or soil that adversely affects the health of humans.
What is pollution?
200
Between developed countries and developing countries, this is the group that has the slower population growth.
What is developed countries?
200
Maps and charts are the most common type of this model.
What is a graphical model?
300
This is the third step of the scientific method.
What is experiment?
300
The shift of energy sources from animals and running water to fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
What is Industrial Revolution?
300
The variety of species that live in an area.
What is biodiversity?
300
This is the area of earth needed to support one person.
What is ecological footprint?
300
A verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized.
What is a conceptual model?
400
The study of living organisms
What is biology?
400
During this time period, fires were set to burn prairies and prevent growth of trees.
What is Hunter-Gatherer time period?
400
After you collect data and draw conclusions from your experiment, you must first do this before communicating your results.
What is repeating experiments?
400
The condition by which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability?
400
Equations that represent the way a system or process works.
What is a mathematical model?
500
The study of animals.
What is zoology?
500
During this period of time, we changed the food we eat.
What is Agricultural Revolution?
500
The term used to describe when a large fraction of the resource has been used up.
What is depleted?
500
This is the name of the process to solve scientific questions.
What is scientific method?
500
Principles or standards we consider important.
What are values?