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| 4825579645 | Environment | Everything around us and how it influences us. |  | 0 |
| 4825579646 | Environmental Science | How human and natures systems interact |  | 1 |
| 4825593309 | System | Anything that interacts/influences something else by exchanging energy and materials (can be different sizes) |  | 2 |
| 4825596365 | Ecosystem | A certain location on Earth with living and non living interacting components |  | 3 |
| 4825601347 | Biotic | Living components of an ecosystem |  | 4 |
| 4825602660 | Abiotic | Non living components of an ecosystem | | 5 |
| 4825604206 | Environmentalist | A person who tries to protect the environment and raise awareness (NOT and environmental scientist) |  | 6 |
| 4825608344 | Environmental Studies | Environmental sciences combined with humanities (law, literature, politics, economics and ethics) |  | 7 |
| 4825613752 | Ecosystem Services | How things people need from nature are produced |  | 8 |
| 4825616626 | Environmental Indicators | Show current state of the ecosystem |  | 9 |
| 4825618306 | Sustainability | Using Earth's resources in a way that doesn't harm next generations |  | 10 |
| 4825622366 | Biodiversity | Diversity of life forms in an environment |  | 11 |
| 4825623993 | Genetic Diversity | Genetic variation of individuals in a population |  | 12 |
| 4825626314 | Species Diversity | Number of different species in a region or habitat |  | 13 |
| 4825628546 | Species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in it's morphology (body form and structure), behavior or biochemical properties |  | 14 |
| 4825633876 | Speciation | Evolution of a new species |  | 15 |
| 4825636277 | Background Extinction Rate | Average rate a species is expected to go extinct |  | 16 |
| 4825638002 | Ecosystem Diversity | Number of different ecosystems or habitats in a certain regioin |  | 17 |
| 4825640316 | Hectacres | 100 meters x 100 meters or 2.47 acres | 18 | |
| 4825642243 | Greenhouse Gases | Heat trapping gases in the Earth's atmosphere Most important: CO2 |  | 19 |
| 4825648045 | Anthropogenic | Caused/Derived by human activites |  | 20 |
| 4825651574 | Population Stabilization | 6.8-10.5 Billion by 2100 |  | 21 |
| 4825652985 | Development | Improvement in human well being through economic advancement |  | 22 |
| 4825656437 | Five Global Environment Indicators | 1. Biological Diversity 2. Food Production 3. Surface Temp. and CO2 4. Human Population 5. Resource Depletion | 23 | |
| 4825661335 | Sustainable Living | 1. Environmental systems must not be damaged beyond recovery 2. Renewable resources must not be depleted faster than the regenerate 3. Non renewable resources must be used sparingly | | 24 |
| 4825669738 | Sustainable Development | Development that balances human well being, economic demands and resource managment | 25 | |
| 4825673107 | Biophilia | Love of life (a need) | 26 | |
| 4825674476 | Ecological Footprint | How much a person consumes in land area | 27 | |
| 4825677050 | Scientific Method | A way to study the natural world methodically | 28 | |
| 4825679299 | Hypothesis | A testable educated guess about how something works | 29 | |
| 4825681386 | Null Hypothesis | A hypothesis that can be proved incorrect (sometimes easier) | 30 | |
| 4825683855 | Replication | Several sets of measurement for the same experiment | 31 | |
| 4825685453 | Sample Size | Number of times a measurement is replicated (sometimes referred to as n) | 32 | |
| 4825696903 | Accuracy | How close a value is to the true value | 33 | |
| 4825698760 | Precision | How close the repeated values are | 34 | |
| 4825699932 | Uncertainty | How much a measured/calculated value varies from the true value | 35 | |
| 4825704667 | Inductive Reasoning | Making general statements from facts or examples | 36 | |
| 4825706138 | Deductive Reasoning | Applying a general statement to specific facts or situations. Not always true | 37 | |
| 4825709167 | Critical Thinking | Looking at all sources questioniably | 38 | |
| 4825711517 | Theory | When a hypothesis is confirmed multiple times and the idea is widely accepted it becomes a ____________ | 39 | |
| 4825716111 | Natural Law | A theory with no exceptions that was proven after many, many tests | 40 | |
| 4825719771 | Natural Experiment | When a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | 41 | |
| 4825722154 | Environmental Justice | Social movement to enforce environmental laws equally despite other factors (wealth etc) | 42 |
