What is science
Scientific Processes
Scientific Communities& Ethical Considerations
Intro to Enviornmental Science
Ecological Footprint
Environmental Policy
Environmental Decision Making
200

A way in which scientists use and gather data 

What is the scientific method? 

200

The 3 ways in which data can be organized 

What are charts, graphs, and tables

200

Individuals at the same level of education or specialization?

What are peers?

200

Is often a term used to describe the natural world 

What is the environment?

200

A measure of the demands made by one person or group on global natural resources.

What is ecological footprint?

200

Rules and regulations to help conserve common resources.

What are environmental policies?

200

The study of the production and consumption of scarce resources and the way they affect behavior.

What is economics? 

400

What are the three parts of a controlled experiment

What are controls, independent variable and independent variable? 

400

Data in which numbers or measurements are used to calculate. 

What is Quantitative data?

400

Explains a phenomenon and is supported by many different fields of evidence. 

What is a scientific theory? 

400

Resource that takes a long time to replenish such as fossil fuels

What is non renewable? 

400

An ecological footprint includes which two things needed to dispose of the waste produced.

What are materials and resources? 

400

The encouragement of an environmentally friendly activity through subsidies by the goverment of tax breaks 


What are incentives?

400

When demand is high but supply is low the price of the resource can be.

What is increased?

600

Reasoning that looks for patterns or rules in the natural world.

Reasoning that compares new things to the rules of the natural world. 

What are inductive and deductive reasoning?

600

What can support or reject a hypothesis? 

What is a conclusion?

600

Can be submitted and may provide support for a larger scientific theory 

What is peer review? 

600

Resources that is naturally replenished over short periods of time 

What are renewable resources? 

600

When a shared resource is unregulated and individuals will consume it a selfish rate. 

What is the Tragedy of the Commons?

600

Policies that focus on the threat of punishment if rules are not followed.

What are regulations? 

600

The process of deciding whether the gain brought by the resource is worth the cost?

What is the cost-benefit analysis?

800

Scientists use these about the world around them to make inferences 

What are observations?

800

Data in which we use description or words.

What is qualitative data?

800

The branch of knowledge that involves moral principles

What is ethics?

800

The environment includes in which they interact with each other.

What is living and nonliving things?

800

2 places that have a large ecological footprint?

What are USA, Russia, Australia, China, Middle East. 

800
The two categories that enviornmental polcies fall into

What are regulations and incentives? 

800

When supply is high and demand is low price of the resource will

What is decrease? 

1000

A testable explanation for a question or problem 

What is a hypothesis?

1000

What can we do with others that helps the whole scientific community to further our knowledge?

What is sharing data?

1000

The three world views that prevail in environmental science

What are Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Ecocentrism

1000

The 2 major events that changed the course of human history and the way in we interact with natural resources

What is the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution?

1000

A cause of a great ecological footprint that involves technology. 

What is industrialization?

1000

Combination of both regulations and incentives

What are cap and trade policies? 

1000
The 4 Types of ecosystem services

What are provisioning, cultural, supporting, and regulating?