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| 8738714502 | environment | The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life | 0 | |
| 8738714503 | environmental science | The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature | 1 | |
| 8738714504 | system | Any set of interacting components that infludence one another by exchanging energy or materials | 2 | |
| 8738714505 | ecosystem | a partiular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components | 3 | |
| 8738714506 | biotic | living | 4 | |
| 8738714507 | abiotic | nonliving | 5 | |
| 8738714508 | environmentalist | A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education | 6 | |
| 8738714509 | environmental studies | The field of study that includes environmental science, environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics among others | 7 | |
| 8738714510 | ecosystem services | The process by which natural environments provide life-supporting resources | 8 | |
| 8738714511 | environmental indicators | Something that describes the current state of an environmental system | 9 | |
| 8738714512 | sustainability | Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources | 10 | |
| 8738714513 | biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment | 11 | |
| 8738714514 | species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties | 12 | |
| 8738714515 | speciation | The evolution of a new species | 13 | |
| 8738714516 | background extinction rate | The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term | 14 | |
| 8738714517 | greenhouse gases | a gas in Earth's atmosphere that traps heat near the surface | 15 | |
| 8738714518 | anthropogenic | Derived from human activities | 16 | |
| 8738714519 | development | Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement | 17 | |
| 8738714520 | sustainable development | Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of guture generation | 18 | |
| 8738714521 | biophilia | An appreciaton of life | 19 | |
| 8738714522 | ecological footprint | A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land | 20 | |
| 8738714523 | scientific method | An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences for it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes | 21 | |
| 8738714524 | hypothesis | A testable theory or supposition about how something works | 22 | |
| 8738714525 | null hypothesis | A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proven wrong | 23 | |
| 8738714526 | replication | The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements | 24 | |
| 8738714527 | sample size | The number of times a measurement is replicated in the data collection process | 25 | |
| 8738714528 | accuracy | How close a measured value is to the actual or true value | 26 | |
| 8738714529 | precision | How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another | 27 | |
| 8738714530 | uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value | 28 | |
| 8738714531 | inductive reasoning | The process of making general statements from specific fats or examples | 29 | |
| 8738714532 | deductive reasoning | The process of applying a general satement to specific facts or situations | 30 | |
| 8738714533 | 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 | 31 | |
| 8738714534 | theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance | 32 | |
| 8738714535 | control group | A set that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study | 33 | |
| 8738714536 | natural experiment | A natural event that acts an an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | 34 | |
| 8738714537 | 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 | 35 |
