Erin Kelley
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| 196281437 | Environment | The sum of all conditions surrounding us that influence life | |
| 196281438 | Environmental Science | The field thar looks at interactions among human systems and nature. | |
| 196281439 | System | Interacting components that influence one another by exchaning energy or materials. | |
| 196281440 | Ecosystem | A particular location on earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components. | |
| 196281441 | Biotic | Living | |
| 196281442 | Abiotic | Nonliving | |
| 196281443 | Environmentalist | A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through activism. | |
| 196281444 | Environmental Studies | The field of study including environmental science, policy, economics, literature and ethics. | |
| 196281445 | Ecosystem Services | Natural enivronments provide life-supporting resources. | |
| 196281446 | Environmental Indicators | Describes the current state of an environmental system. | |
| 196281447 | Sustainability | Using earth's resources without depriving future gernerations of those resources. | |
| 196281448 | Biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment. | |
| 196281449 | Species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups. | |
| 196281450 | Speciation | The evolution of new species | |
| 196281451 | Backround Extinction Rate | The average rate at which species go extinct over the long term. | |
| 196281452 | Green House Gases | A gas in earths atmosphere that traps heat near the surface. | |
| 196281453 | Anthropogenic | Derived from human activity | |
| 196281454 | Development | Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement. | |
| 196281455 | Biophilia | Love of Life | |
| 196281456 | Ecological Footprint | A measure of how much a person consumes, expressed in area of land. | |
| 196281457 | Scientific Method | An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferenced from it, and predict the outcome of certain events. | |
| 196281458 | Hypothesis | a testable conjecture about how something works. | |
| 196281459 | Null Hypothesis | A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong. | |
| 196281460 | Replication | To take several sets of measurments. | |
| 196281461 | Sample Size | The number of times a measurment is replicated. | |
| 196281462 | Accuracy | How close a measured value is to the actual or true value. | |
| 196281463 | Precision | How close to one another the repeated measurments of the same sample are. | |
| 196281464 | Uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measure differs from a true value. | |
| 196281465 | Inductive Reasoning | Process of making general statements from specific facts. | |
| 196281466 | Deductive Reasoning | Process of appling a general statemtne to specific facts or sutuations. | |
| 196281467 | Critical Thinking | The process essential to all scientific endeavor. | |
| 196281468 | Theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by mulitple groups of researchers and reaches wide acceptance. | |
| 196281469 | Natural Law | The theory to which there is no exceptions and has withstood rigorous testing. | |
| 196281470 | Control Group | A group that experience exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for a single variable under study. | |
| 196281471 | Natural Experiment | Occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem. | |
| 196281472 | Environmental Justice | A social movement and the field of study that works toward equal enforcement of environmental laws. | |
| 196281473 | Sustainable Development | Balances current human well-being and economic advances with resource management for the benefit of future generations. |
