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| 7241204788 | Biodiversity | Variety of different species | 0 | |
| 7241204789 | Biodegradable pollutants | Material that can be broken down into simplier substances by bacteria or decomposers | 1 | |
| 7241204790 | Ecological footprint | Amount of biogically productive land and water needed to supply a population with the renewable resources it uses | 2 | |
| 7241204791 | Ecological tipping point | Point at which an environment problem reaches a threshhold level which causes a irrreversible shift in behavior of a natural system. | 3 | |
| 7241204792 | Environmental degradation | Depletion or destruction of a potientally renewable resource. | 4 | |
| 7241204793 | Environmental ethics | Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat our environment | 5 | |
| 7241204794 | Environmental wisdom world view | Worldview holding that humans are part of and totally dependent on nature | 6 | |
| 7241204795 | Environmental world view | Set of assumptions and beliefs about how people think the world works | 7 | |
| 7241204796 | Environmentalism | Social movement dedicated to protecting the earths life support systems for us and ithet species | 8 | |
| 7241204797 | Environmentally sustainable society | Society that meets the current and future needs of its people for basic resources in a just and equitable manner without screwing over their posterity | 9 | |
| 7241204798 | Gross domestic product (GDP) | Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations | 10 | |
| 7241204799 | Input pollution control | Device, process, or stragedy used to prevent a potiental pollutant from forming | 11 | |
| 7241204800 | natural capital | The natural resources of Earth that keep us alive and support us, such as air, water, and minerals. | 12 | |
| 7241204801 | Natural income | Renewable resources such as plants and animals | 13 | |
| 7241204802 | Natural services | Processes of nature such as purification of air and water which support life and human economies | 14 | |
| 7241204803 | nondegradable pollutants | Material that is not broken down by natural processes | 15 | |
| 7241204804 | Nonpoint sources | A broad area from which pollutants enter | 16 | |
| 7241204805 | Nutrient cycling | The circulation of chemicals necessary for life | 17 | |
| 7241204806 | Output pollution control | Device or product that removes or reduces a level of pollutant in an area | 18 | |
| 7241204807 | Per capita ecological footprint | Amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply each person wiyh renewable reosources they use | 19 | |
| 7241204808 | per capita GDP | Measure of the amount of goods and services that a countrys average citizen could buy in the united states | 20 | |
| 7241204809 | perpetual resource | Esstienally inexhaustable resource on a human time scale because its renewed continuously | 21 | |
| 7241204810 | Plantary management worldview | Worldview holding that humans are seperate from nature, that nature exists mainly to meet our needs and wants. | 22 | |
| 7241204811 | Point sources | A single source that disperses pollution | 23 | |
| 7241204812 | Pollution cleanup | Device or process that removes or reduces level of pollution in an area | 24 | |
| 7241204813 | Pollution prevention | Device or strategy used to prevent potential pollutant from sntering area | 25 | |
| 7241204814 | Poverty | Inability of people to meet their basic needs for food, clothes abd shelter | 26 | |
| 7241204815 | Recycling | To collect ad reprocess a resource so that it can be made into new products | 27 | |
| 7241204816 | Reuse | To use a product over and over again in the same form | 28 | |
| 7241204817 | Social capita | Result of getting people with different views to talk and listen to one another to solve environmental problems | 29 | |
| 7241204818 | Stewardship worldview | Worldview holding that we can manage the earth for our benefit but that we have a responsibility to care for it | 30 | |
| 7241204819 | Sustainability | Ability of earths various systems to survive and adapt to environmental change | 31 | |
| 7241204820 | Sustainable yield | Highest rate at which a potential renewable resource can be used without reducing its supply | 32 | |
| 7241204821 | Acidity | Chemical characteristics that help determine how a substance dissolved in water will affect its environment | 33 | |
| 7241204822 | Atomic number | Number of protons in the nucleas. | 34 | |
| 7241204823 | Atomic theory | Idea that all elements are made up of atoms | 35 | |
| 7241204824 | Chemical change | Interaction between chemicals in which the chemical composition is changed | 36 | |
| 7241204825 | Chemical formula | Shorthand way to show the number of atoms in a compound | 37 | |
| 7241204826 | Compounds | Combination of atoms of two or more elements held together by chemical bonds | 38 | |
| 7241204827 | Electromagnetic radiation | Forms of kinetic energy traveling as electromagnetic waves | 39 | |
| 7241204828 | Elements | A chemical whose distinctly different atoms serve as the basic building. Blocks of all matter. | 40 | |
| 7241204829 | Energy quality | Ability of a form of energy to do useful work | 41 | |
| 7241204830 | Feedback | Any process that increases or decreases a change to a system | 42 | |
| 7241204831 | feedback loop | Occurs when an output of matter, energy or information is fed back into the system as an input and leads to changes in that system | 43 | |
| 7241204832 | first law of thermodynamics | Whenever energy is changed from one form to another, no energy is created or destoryed. | 44 | |
| 7241204833 | Throughput | Rate of flow of matter, energy, or information through a system. | 45 | |
| 7241204834 | Fossil fuels | Products of partial or complete decompostion of plants and animals; occurs as oil and natural gas | 46 | |
| 7241204835 | Frontier science | Preliminary scientific data, hypothesis and models that have not been widely tested and accepted. | 47 | |
| 7241204836 | High quality energy | Energy that has been concetrated and had great ability to perform useful work. | 48 | |
| 7241204837 | High quality matter | Matter that is concetrated and highly useful | 49 | |
| 7241204838 | Inorganic compounds | All compounds that aren't organic compounds | 50 | |
| 7241204839 | Inputs | Matter, energy, or info entering a system | 51 | |
| 7241204840 | Ion | An atom or group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge. | 52 | |
| 7241204841 | Isotopes | Two or more forms of a chemical element that have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons | 53 | |
| 7241204842 | Law of Conservation of Matter | Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change but change in one form to anothet | 54 | |
| 7241204843 | Low quality energy | Energy that has little ability to do useful work | 55 | |
| 7241204844 | low quality matter | Matter that contains a low concentration of a useful resource | 56 | |
| 7241204845 | Mass number | Sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleas | 57 | |
| 7241204846 | Matter quality | Measure of how useful a matter resource is based on concetration and availability | 58 | |
| 7241204847 | Molecule | Combination of two or more atomw of the same chemical element | 59 | |
| 7241204848 | negative feedback loop | Feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which is it moving | 60 | |
| 7241204849 | Nuclear change | Process in which nuclei of certain isotopes change into one or more different isotopes | 61 | |
| 7241204850 | Organic compounds | Compounds containing carbon atoms combined with each other, all elements | 62 | |
| 7241204851 | Peer review | Process of scientist reporting details of the methods and models they used the results of their experiments in the reasons behind their hypothesis for other scientist working in the same field to examine and criticize | 63 | |
| 7241204852 | pH | Numeric value that indicates the relative acidity or Alkalinity to see of a substance on a scale of 0 to 14 | 64 | |
| 7241204853 | Physical change | Process that alters one or more physical properties of an element or compound without changing its chemical composition | 65 | |
| 7241204854 | Positive feedback loop | Feedback loop that causes the system to change further in the same direction | 66 | |
| 7241204855 | Reliable science | Concepts and ideas that are widely excepted by experts in a particular field of natural or social sciences | 67 | |
| 7241204856 | Scientific hypothesis | Educated guess that attempts to explain a scientific law | 68 | |
| 7241204857 | Scientific natural law | Description of what scientist find happening in nature repeatedly in the same way | 69 | |
| 7241204858 | Scientific theory | A well tested and widely accepted scientific hypothesis | 70 | |
| 7241204859 | second law of thermodynamics | Whenever energy is converted from one form to another any physical or chemical change. It will end with lower quality or less usable energy | 71 | |
| 7241204860 | Synergistic interaction | Interaction of two or more factors or processes so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of their separate effects | 72 | |
| 7241204861 | System | Set of components that function and interact and some regular and theoretically predictable matter | 73 | |
| 7241204862 | Throughputs | Rate of flow, matter, energy or information through system | 74 | |
| 7241204863 | Tipping point | Threshold level at which an environmental problem causes a fundamental an irreversible shift in the behavior of a system | 75 |
