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| 4761912938 | environment, | everything around us living and nonliving. JFS | 0 | |
| 4761931282 | environmental science, | study of the natural worlds functions, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment. JFS | 1 | |
| 4761938585 | natural resources | any substance and energy that we take from our environment to survive. JFS | 2 | |
| 4761944049 | renewable natural resources | any natural resource that renews itself on its own that will not run out. I.E sunlight. JFS | 3 | |
| 4761947488 | nonrenewable natural resources | natural resources that are in limited supplies. JFS | 4 | |
| 4761949997 | ecosystems services | it is what the ecosystems do like purifying the air, and makes economic activity possible. JFS | 5 | |
| 4761961273 | agricultural revolution | the shift every 10000 years from a hunter/gatherer life to an agricultural way of life. JFS | 6 | |
| 4761965023 | industrial revolution | shift from a rural life to an urban society in the mid-1700's. JFS | 7 | |
| 4761970083 | fossils fuels | a nonrenewable resource like crude oil, natural gas or coal, made by the decomposition and compression of organic matter. JFS | 8 | |
| 4761976759 | ecological footprint | the cumulative area of biologically productive land and water required to provide the raw materials a person/ population consumes and disposes of. JFS | 9 | |
| 4761982247 | overshoot | the amount of resources humans use measured by the ecological footprint. we have passed over earths capacity to support us. JFS | 10 | |
| 4761995008 | interdisciplinary field | a field that borrows techniques from multiple fields of study and brings together research results into a broad synthesis. JFS | 11 | |
| 4762004965 | natural sciences | disciplines that study the natural world. JFS | 12 | |
| 4762010625 | social sciences | disciplines that study human interactions and institutions | 13 | |
| 4762021595 | environmental studies | academic enviromental science programs that emphasizes the social sciences as well as natural sciences | 14 | |
| 4762027916 | environmentalism | social movement to protect the natural world | 15 | |
| 4762031321 | science | systematic process for learning about the world and everything in it | 16 | |
| 4762035121 | observational science | it is a science that is based on the observation of a group that has nothing done to them | 17 | |
| 4762037058 | discriptive science | reserch in which scientist gather basic info about materials, systems or processes. | 18 | |
| 4764968515 | hypothesis-driven science | research where scientist pose questions that seek to explain how and why things are. | 19 | |
| 4764971781 | scientific method | a formalized method for testing ideas. J.S | 20 | |
| 4764974949 | hypothesis | a statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon, or answer a scientific question | 21 | |
| 4764977349 | predictions | a specific statement generally arising from a hypothesis can be tested | 22 | |
| 4764980832 | experiment | an activity to test the validity of a hypothesis | 23 | |
| 4765002489 | variables | in an experiment a condition that can change | 24 | |
| 4765004118 | independent variables | the variable that the scientist manipulates in a experiment | 25 | |
| 4765006666 | dependent variable | the variable that is affected by the manipulation of an independent variable | 26 | |
| 4765010738 | controlled experiment | an experiment in which a treatment is compared to a control in order to take a variable | 27 | |
| 4765013884 | control | a portion of the experiment in which a variable has been left unaffected to serve as a point of comparison | 28 | |
| 4765023228 | treatment | a portion of an experiment that has been manipulated in an experiment | 29 | |
| 4765029803 | data | info from an experiment | 30 | |
| 4765031480 | manipulative experiment | an experiment in which the researchers actively chooses and manipulates the independent variable | 31 | |
| 4765036217 | natural experiment | an experiment that the reasearcher can not directly influence the variables | 32 | |
| 4765040056 | correlation | a statistical association among variables | 33 | |
| 4765041576 | peer review | the process by which a manuscript is submitted for publication in an academic journal and is reviewed by specialist in that field | 34 | |
| 4765047740 | theory | a widely accepted well tested explanation of one or more cause and affect relationship that has been extensively validated by a great amount of reaserch | 35 | |
| 4765053582 | paradigm | a dominant philosophical and theoretical framework within a scientific disipline | 36 | |
| 4765057128 | sustanabiltity | the guiding principle of enviromental science that makes sure humans are using enough resources to keep us alive but not enough to deplete the resources of the earth | 37 | |
| 4765061770 | natural capital | earths accumulated wealth of resources | 38 | |
| 4768294728 | hypothisis driven science | reaserch where the scientis pose a question to explain the how and why things are. | 39 |
