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| 4746628512 | environment | the sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life |  | 0 |
| 4746628513 | environmental science | the field that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature |  | 1 |
| 4746628514 | system | any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials |  | 2 |
| 4746628515 | ecosystem | a particular location on Earth whose interacting components include living or nonliving components |  | 3 |
| 4746628516 | biotic | living |  | 4 |
| 4746628517 | abiotic | nonliving |  | 5 |
| 4746628518 | environmentalist | a person who participates in environmentalism |  | 6 |
| 4746628519 | environmentalism | a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education |  | 7 |
| 4746628520 | environmental studies | a broader field that environmental science is a subset of which it also includes, environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics |  | 8 |
| 4746628521 | ecosystem services | the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced |  | 9 |
| 4746628522 | environmental indicators | describe the current state of an environmental system |  | 10 |
| 4746628523 | sustainability | living on Earth in a way that allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources |  | 11 |
| 4746628524 | biodiversity | the diversity of life forms in an environment |  | 12 |
| 4746628525 | speciation | the evolution of new species |  | 13 |
| 4746628526 | background extinction rate | the average rate at which species go extinct over the long term |  | 14 |
| 4746628527 | greenhouse gases | heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere |  | 15 |
| 4746628528 | anthropogenic | effects derived from human activities |  | 16 |
| 4746628529 | development | improvement in human hell-being through economic advancement | 17 | |
| 4746628530 | sustainable development | development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations |  | 18 |
| 4746628531 | ecological footprint | a measure of how much that person consumes, expressed in area of land |  | 19 |
| 4746628532 | scientific method | an objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes |  | 20 |
| 4746628533 | hypothesis | a testable conjecture about how something works |  | 21 |
| 4746628534 | null hypothesis | a statement or idea that can falsified, or proved wrong |  | 22 |
| 4746628535 | replication | the process of taking several sets of measurements | 23 | |
| 4746628536 | sample size | number of times a measurement is replicated or the number of sets of measurements |  | 24 |
| 4746628537 | uncertainty | an estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value | 25 | |
| 4746628538 | inductive reasoning | the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples |  | 26 |
| 4746628539 | deductive reasoning | the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations | | 27 |
| 4746628540 | critical thinking | the process of reading findings with a critical eye; questioning the source of the information, considering the methods of processes that were used to obtain the information, and drawing your own conclusions |  | 28 |
| 4746628541 | theory | a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance | 29 | |
| 4746628542 | natural law | a theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing |  | 30 |
| 4746628543 | control group | a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study |  | 31 |
| 4746628544 | natural experiment | occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | 32 | |
| 4746628545 | 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 society |  | 33 |
