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| 7261257630 | Law of conservation of matter | when a physical or chemical change occurs, no atoms are created or destroyed | 0 | |
| 7261257931 | kinetic energy | energy of movement | 1 | |
| 7261258132 | potential energy | stored energy | 2 | |
| 7261258324 | first law of thermodynamics | when energy is converted from one form to another, no energy is created or destroyed | 3 | |
| 7261258737 | second law of thermodynamics | when energy changes from one form to another, it always becomes lower quality | 4 | |
| 7261259839 | positive feedback loop | causes a system to change further in the same direction | 5 | |
| 7261260230 | negative feedback loop | cause a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving | 6 | |
| 7261260865 | tipping points | the critical point in an evolving situation that leads to irreversible effects, where a negative feedback loop becomes a positive one | 7 | |
| 7261262422 | entropy | a way of measuring the amount of chaos in a system | 8 | |
| 7261262856 | elements | fundamental substances with unique properties | 9 | |
| 7261263192 | isotope | same # of protons, different mass #s | 10 | |
| 7261263366 | ion | different # of electrons, same # of protons | 11 | |
| 7261264363 | 10 | each step of the pH scale is ___ times | 12 | |
| 7261265840 | organic | needs at least 2 carbons, and at least one other element | 13 | |
| 7261266258 | methane | an organic matter, an exception | 14 | |
| 7261266949 | hydrocarbons | have only hydrogen and carbon, like methane or octane | 15 | |
| 7261267811 | chlorinated hydrocarbons | compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, usually toxic | 16 | |
| 7261271205 | simple carbohydrates | compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms | 17 | |
| 7261272582 | C₆H₁₂O₆ | glucose formula | 18 | |
| 7261274516 | high vs low quality matter | how useful matter is to humans as a resource, based on its availability and concentration | 19 | |
| 7261274819 | environment | the place you live, everything around us, everything that is affecting you whether you know it or not | 20 | |
| 7261276233 | open access | where there is no ownership and resources available for use by anyone | 21 | |
| 7261278357 | natural capital | aspects of nature that support life, natural resources and natural services | 22 | |
| 7261278597 | natural resources | matter and energy in nature valuable to humans (stone, lumber, etc) | 23 | |
| 7261279187 | natural services | functions of nature which support life and human economies (pollination, decomposition, photosynthesis, etc) | 24 | |
| 7261280179 | solar capital | energy from the sun | 25 | |
| 7261280349 | GDP (gross domestic product) | the annual market value of all goods and services produced by everyone and every company in a country | 26 | |
| 7261282263 | Per Capita GDP | GDP divided by the total population at midyear | 27 | |
| 7261283223 | PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) | the exchange rate | 28 | |
| 7261283527 | Per Capita GDP PPP | a measure of the amount of goods and services that a country's average citizen could buy in the US | 29 | |
| 7261285962 | developed countries | countries that have a high degree of industrialization and a high per capita GDP PPP | 30 | |
| 7261288668 | least developed countries | where per capita GDP PPP is declining | 31 | |
| 7261289493 | natural income | the renewable resources provided by natural capital | 32 | |
| 7261290807 | perpetual resource | renewed continuously, like solar caputal | 33 | |
| 7261291693 | sustainable yield | the highest rate a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply | 34 | |
| 7261294761 | pint sources | single, identifiable sources | 35 | |
| 7261294922 | nonpoint sources | dispersed and hard to identify | 36 | |
| 7261296748 | planetary management worldview | the view that humans are separate from nature, and nature exists to meet our needs | 37 | |
| 7261297713 | stewardship worldview | the view that we can and should manage the earth to our benefit, but we still have an ethical responsibility to care for our planet | 38 | |
| 7261301038 | environmental wisdom worldview | the view that humans are a part of nature, and we should try to act with a land ethic | 39 | |
| 7261303425 | social capital | getting people with different views to talk to and understand each other | 40 | |
| 7261307215 | inductive reasoning | using specific observations and measurements to arrive at a general conclusion or hypothesis | 41 | |
| 7261307828 | deductive reasoning | using logic to arrive at a specific conclusion based on a generalization | 42 | |
| 7261308133 | paradigm shift | occurs when the majority of scientists in a field accept a new paradigm, a framework for theories and laws in a particular field | 43 | |
| 7261310150 | reliable science | consists of data, hypotheses, theories, and laws | 44 | |
| 7261311413 | tentative science | has not been widely tested and accepted by peer review | 45 | |
| 7261312034 | unreliable science | have been discarded as the result of a peer review | 46 | |
| 7261314121 | radioisotopes | unstable isotopes | 47 | |
| 7261314319 | heat | the total kinetic energy of all moving atoms, ions, or molecules within a given substance | 48 | |
| 7261314707 | radiation | the emission of electromagnetic energy | 49 | |
| 7261315248 | conduction | the transfer of kinetic energy between substances in contact with one another | 50 | |
| 7261315869 | electro magnetic radiation | where energy travels in the form of a wave because of changes in electric and magnetic fields | 51 | |
| 7261319348 | energy efficiency | a measure of how much useful work is accomplished by a particular input of energy into a system | 52 | |
| 7270189476 | null hypothesis | a hypothesis that there is 'no effect' or 'no difference' any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error | 53 |
