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| 4825796250 | Environment | The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life. |  | 0 |
| 4825804987 | Environmental Science | The science that deals with the interactions among human systems and those found in nature. |  | 1 |
| 4825813568 | Ecosystem | A particular location on earth with interacting biotic and abiotic components. |  | 2 |
| 4825818733 | Biotic | Living factors |  | 3 |
| 4825821664 | Abiotic | Non living factors |  | 4 |
| 4825825575 | Environmental studies | The field of study that includes environmental science and additional subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics. |  | 5 |
| 4825833765 | Environmental indicator | An indicator that describes the current state of an environmental system. |  | 6 |
| 4825839756 | Biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment. |  | 7 |
| 4825841707 | Genetic diversity | A measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population. |  | 8 |
| 4826046229 | Species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties. |  | 9 |
| 4826073120 | Species diversity | The number of species in a region or in a particular habitat. |  | 10 |
| 4826074861 | Speciation | The evolution of new species. |  | 11 |
| 4826077391 | Background extinction rate | The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term. |  | 12 |
| 4826083785 | Greenhouse gases | Gases in the earth's atmosphere that trap the heat near the surface. Ex. CO2 |  | 13 |
| 4826085878 | Anthropogenic | Derived from human activities. |  | 14 |
| 4826089345 | Development | improvement in human well being through economic advancement. |  | 15 |
| 4826092757 | Sustainability | Living on earth that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources. |  | 16 |
| 4826100678 | Sustainable development | Development that balances current human well being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations. | | 17 |
| 4826105908 | Biophilia | Love of Life |  | 18 |
| 4826107003 | Ecological Footprint | A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land. |  | 19 |
| 4826111536 | Scientific Method | AN objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes |  | 20 |
| 4826116089 | Hypothesis | A testable conjecture about how something works. |  | 21 |
| 4826119270 | Null hypothesis | A statement or an idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong. |  | 22 |
| 4826331124 | Replication | Taking repeated measurements of the data. |  | 23 |
| 4826333334 | Sample size | (n) the number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection. |  | 24 |
| 4826335592 | Accuracy | How close a measured value is to the actual or true value. |  | 25 |
| 4826340213 | Precision | How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another. |  | 26 |
| 4826343752 | Theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed many times and which results are widely accepted. |  | 27 |
| 4826348506 | Control group | The group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group except for the single variable under study. |  | 28 |
| 4826359096 | Natural experiment | A natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem. |  | 29 |
