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| 4742909446 | biotic | living | 0 | |
| 4742909774 | abiotic | non-living | 1 | |
| 4742910294 | sustainability | use resources w/o depleating | 2 | |
| 4742911883 | biodiversity | variety of life forms | 3 | |
| 4742912627 | speciation | evolution of new species | 4 | |
| 4742914097 | Hectare | metric measure of area; 2.47 acres | 5 | |
| 4742914864 | greenhouse gases | heat trapping gases | 6 | |
| 4742915581 | anthropogenic | caused by human activities | 7 | |
| 4742918247 | development | improvement in human well being, economic advancement | 8 | |
| 4742921583 | sustainable development | human well being and resource management for future | 9 | |
| 4742924920 | biophilia | love of life; need to connect with nature | 10 | |
| 4742926134 | ecological footprint | how much a person consumes expressed in area of land | 11 | |
| 4742931615 | sample size | number of times a measurement is replicated | 12 | |
| 4742940037 | theory | large body of evidence not contradicted | 13 | |
| 4742942382 | control group | group with same conditions of experimental group except independent variable | 14 | |
| 4742945435 | dependent variable | variable that changes in response to independent variable | 15 | |
| 4742946356 | independent variable | variable that the scientist changes | 16 | |
| 4742948348 | environmental justice | equal enforcement of environmental laws and elimination of disparities | 17 | |
| 4742951665 | environmental indicators | biological diversity, food production, global surface temp. and CO2 concentration, human population, resource depletion | 18 | |
| 4742963328 | covalent bonds | sharing electrons | 19 | |
| 4742964622 | ionic bonds | transferred electrons | 20 | |
| 4742965331 | hydrogen bonds | hydrogen atoms bond together covalently | 21 | |
| 4742968975 | polar molecule | one side more positive, one side more negative | 22 | |
| 4742970284 | surface tension | cohesion of water molecules at the surface of a body of water | 23 | |
| 4742971683 | capillary action | adhesion of water to a surface stronger than cohesion between molecules | 24 | |
| 4742974115 | solvent | substance that dissolves another | 25 | |
| 4742975127 | acid | contributes hydrogen ions to a solution 1-6 on pH scale | 26 | |
| 4742975469 | base | contributes hydroxide ions to a solution 7-14 on pH scale | 27 | |
| 4742977514 | law of conservation of matter | no atoms are created or destroyed in a chemical reaction | 28 | |
| 4742979285 | inorganic compounds | do not contain carbon, or carbon bound to elements other than hydrogen | 29 | |
| 4742980118 | organic compounds | carbon-carbon and carbon -hydrogen bonds base of biological molecules | 30 | |
| 4742982184 | energy | ability to do work power x time | 31 | |
| 4742983332 | joule | metic basic unit of energy | 32 | |
| 4742984472 | power | rate at which work is done; energy /time | 33 | |
| 4742987016 | potential energy | stored energy | 34 | |
| 4742987482 | kinetic energy | energy of motionfi | 35 | |
| 4742988409 | first law of thermodynamics | energy cannot be created or destroyed | 36 | |
| 4742990299 | second law of thermodynamics | when energy is transformed, quantity stays the same but ability to work diminishes | 37 | |
| 4742992454 | energy efficiency | ratio of the amount of work that is done to the total amount of energy that is introduced | 38 | |
| 4742993878 | entrophy | all systems move toward randomness | 39 | |
| 4742994796 | open system | exchanges of matter or energy occur across system | 40 | |
| 4742996242 | closed system | exchanges of matter or energy across boundaries do not occure | 41 | |
| 4742998133 | negative feedback loop | system responds to a change by returning to original state resists change | 42 | |
| 4742999025 | positive feedback loop | amplifies changes | 43 |
