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| 4851798759 | Environment | Sum of conditions surrounding us that influence life | 0 | |
| 4851798760 | Environmental science | Interactions of human systems with those found in nature | 1 | |
| 4851798761 | System | Any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials | 2 | |
| 4851798762 | Ecosystem | Particular location on earth whose interacting conponents include living/biotic components and non living/abiotic | 3 | |
| 4851798763 | Biotic | Living | 4 | |
| 4851798764 | Abiotic | Nonliving | 5 | |
| 4851798765 | Environmentalist | Person who participates in environmentalism | 6 | |
| 4851798766 | Environmental studies | Include environmental: science, policy, economics, literature and ethics | 7 | |
| 4851798767 | Environmental indicators | Describe the current state of an environmental system | 8 | |
| 4851798768 | Sustainability | Loving on earth in a way that allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources | 9 | |
| 4851798769 | Biodiversity | Diversity of life forms in an environment | 10 | |
| 4851798770 | Genetic diversity | Measure of generic variation among individuals in a population | 11 | |
| 4851798771 | Species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior or buochemical properties | 12 | |
| 4851798772 | Speciation | Evolution of new species | 13 | |
| 4851798773 | Background extinction rate | Average rate at which species go extinct over the long term | 14 | |
| 4851798774 | Anthropogenic | Derived from human activities | 15 | |
| 4851798775 | Greenhouse gases | Heat trapping gases in our atmosphere | 16 | |
| 4851798776 | Development | Improvement i himan wellbeingtheough evonomic advancement | 17 | |
| 4851798777 | Sustainable development | Development that balances current human wellbeing and economic advances with resource management for the benefit of future generations | 18 | |
| 4851798778 | Biophilia | Love of life | 19 | |
| 4851798779 | Ecological footprint | Measure of how much that person consumes, expressed in area of land | 20 | |
| 4851798780 | Scientific method | Objective way to explore the natural world, draw influences feom it and predict the outcomes if certain events | 21 | |
| 4851798781 | Hypothesis | Testable conjecture about how something works | 22 | |
| 4851798782 | Null hypothesis | Statement or idea that can be falsified or proven wrong | 23 | |
| 4851798783 | Replication | Taking several set of measurements | 24 | |
| 4851798784 | Sample size | The number of times and neasurement if replicated | 25 | |
| 4851798785 | Accuracy | How close a measured value is to the acctual or true value | 26 | |
| 4851798786 | Precision | How close to each other the repeated measuremeants of the same sample are | 27 | |
| 4851798787 | Uncertainty | Estimate of how much a measure or calculated differs from a true value | 28 | |
| 4851798788 | Inductive reasoning | Process of making general statments from specific facts or examples | 29 | |
| 4851798789 | Deductive reasoning | Process if applying a general statement to specific facts or situations | 30 | |
| 4851798790 | Critical thinking | Questioning the source of new information and methods used to obtain new information | 31 | |
| 4851798791 | Theory | Hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups and has reached wide acceptance | 32 | |
| 4851798792 | Natural law | Theory to which there is no known exceptionand has withstood rigorous testing | 33 | |
| 4851798793 | Control group | Group that experiences the exact same conditions as the experimental group | 34 | |
| 4851798794 | Natural experiment | Natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | 35 | |
| 4851798795 | Environmental justice | Social movement and field of study that works towards equal enforcement of environmental laws and the elimination of disparities of how pollutants and other environmental harms are distributed among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups | 36 |
