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| 197852875 | environment | The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life | |
| 197852876 | environmental science | The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature | |
| 197852877 | system | Any set of interacting components that infludence one another by exchanging energy or materials | |
| 197852878 | ecosystem | a partiular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components | |
| 197852879 | biotic | living | |
| 197852880 | abiotic | nonliving | |
| 197852881 | environmentalist | A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education | |
| 197852882 | environmental studies | The field of study that includes environmental science, environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics among others | |
| 197852883 | ecosystem services | The process by which natural environments provide life-supporting resources | |
| 197852884 | environmental indicators | Something that describes the current state of an environmental system | |
| 197852885 | sustainability | Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources | |
| 197852886 | biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment | |
| 197852887 | species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties | |
| 197852888 | speciation | The evolution of a new species | |
| 197852889 | background extinction rate | The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term | |
| 197852890 | greenhouse gases | a gas in Earth's atmosphere that traps heat near the surface | |
| 197852891 | anthropogenic | Derived from human activities | |
| 197852892 | development | Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement | |
| 197852893 | sustainable development | Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of guture generation | |
| 197852894 | biophilia | An appreciaton of life | |
| 197852895 | ecological footprint | A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land | |
| 197852896 | scientific method | An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences for it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes | |
| 197852897 | hypothesis | A testable theory or supposition about how something works | |
| 197852898 | null hypothesis | A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proven wrong | |
| 197852899 | replication | The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements | |
| 197852900 | sample size | The number of times a measurement is replicated in the data collection process | |
| 197852901 | accuracy | How close a measured value is to the actual or true value | |
| 197852902 | precision | How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another | |
| 197852903 | uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value | |
| 197852904 | inductive reasoning | The process of making general statements from specific fats or examples | |
| 197852905 | deductive reasoning | The process of applying a general satement to specific facts or situations | |
| 197852906 | critical thinking | The process of questioning the soure of information, considering the methods used to obtain the information, and drawing conclusions; essential to all scientific endevors | |
| 197852907 | theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance | |
| 197852908 | control group | A set that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study | |
| 197852909 | natural experiment | A natural event that acts an an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | |
| 197852910 | environmental justice | A social movement and field of study that focuses on equal enforcement of environmental laws and eliminating disparities in the exposure of environmental harm to different ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society |
