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| 4884322509 | Environment | The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life. | 0 | |
| 4884322510 | Environmental Science | The field that looks at interactions among human systems found in nature. | 1 | |
| 4884322511 | System | Any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanigng energy or materials. | 2 | |
| 4884453875 | Ecosystem | A particular location on Earth whose interacting components include living (biotic) components and nonliving (abiotic) components. | 3 | |
| 4884453876 | Biotic | Living components | 4 | |
| 4884453877 | Abiotic | Non-living components | 5 | |
| 4884453878 | Environmentalist | A person who participates in environmentalism. | 6 | |
| 4884453879 | Environmentalism | A social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism and education. | 7 | |
| 4884453880 | Environmental Studies | A broader field of study including additional subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature and ethics. | 8 | |
| 4884453881 | Ecosystem Services | A process provided by natural environments by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultrual crops are produced. | 9 | |
| 4884453882 | Environmental Indicator | Describes the current state of an environmental system. | 10 | |
| 4884453883 | Sustainability | Living on Earth in a way that allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations | 11 | |
| 4884453884 | Biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment. (Exists on 3 scales: genetic, species, ecosystem) | 12 | |
| 4884453885 | Species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology (body form and structure), behavior, or biochemical properties. | 13 | |
| 4884453886 | Speciation | The evolution of new species. ~1-3 species worldwide | 14 | |
| 4884453887 | Background extinction rate | The average rate at which species go extinct over the long term. ~1 species in a million every year. | 15 | |
| 4884453888 | Greenhouse gases | Heat-trapping gases | 16 | |
| 4884453889 | Anthropogenic | Derived from human activities. | 17 | |
| 4884453890 | Development | Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement. | 18 | |
| 4884453891 | Sustainable Development | Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations. | 19 | |
| 4884453892 | Biophilia | Love of life. A need to make 'the connections that humans subconsciously seek with the rest of life.' | 20 | |
| 4884453893 | Ecological Footprint | A measure of how much that person consumes, expressed in area of land. | 21 | |
| 4884453894 | Hypothesis | A testable conjecture about how something works. | 22 | |
| 4884453895 | Null hypothesis | A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong. | 23 | |
| 4884453896 | Replication | A procedure where scientists typically take several sets of measurements. | 24 | |
| 4884453897 | Sample Size | Number of times a measurement is replicated (n). | 25 | |
| 4884453898 | Accuracy | Refers to how close a measured value is to the actual or true value. | 26 | |
| 4884453899 | Precision | How close to one another the repeated measurements of the same sample are. | 27 | |
| 4884453900 | Uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value | 28 | |
| 4884453901 | Inductive Reasoning | The process of making general statements from specific facts or examples | 29 | |
| 4884453902 | Deductive Reasoning | The process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations. | 30 | |
| 4884453903 | Critical Thinking | Questioning the source of the information, consider the methods or process that were used to obtain the information, and draw your own conclusions. (The process of doing these steps) | 31 | |
| 4884453904 | Theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups if researchers and has reach wide acceptance. | 32 | |
| 4884453905 | Natural Law | A theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing. | 33 | |
| 4884453906 | Natural experiment | Occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem. Ec. A volcano destroys thousands of hectares of forest provides a nature experiment for understanding large-scale forest regrowth. | 34 | |
| 4884459074 | Environmental Justice | A social movement and field of study that works toward equal enforcement of environmental laws and the elimination of disparities, whether intended or unintended, in how pollutants and other environmental harms are distributed among the various ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a country. | 35 |
