| 7223424258 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem. | | 0 |
| 7223424259 | Biodegradable pollutants | harmful materials that can be broken down by natural processes | | 1 |
| 7223424260 | ecological footprint | shows the productive area of earth needed to support one person in a particular country | | 2 |
| 7223424261 | ecological tipping point | part of the human-environment system that can lever far-reaching change in the system. | | 3 |
| 7223424262 | Ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment | | 4 |
| 7223424263 | Economic Development | an effort to use economic growth to improve living standards | | 5 |
| 7223424264 | Economic growth | the ability of the economy to increase the production of goods and services | | 6 |
| 7223424265 | Environment | every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us | | 7 |
| 7223424266 | Environmental degradation | damage to or destruction of the natural environment | | 8 |
| 7223424267 | Environmental Ethics | Human beliefs about what is right or wrong with how we treat the environment. | | 9 |
| 7223424268 | Environmental Science | the study of the impact of humans on the environment | | 10 |
| 7223424269 | Environmental wisdom worldview | We are part of and dependent on nature and it exists for all species, not just us. Success depends on how well we sustain the earth. | | 11 |
| 7223424270 | environmental worldview | humans are the most important species and steward of the earth. | | 12 |
| 7223424271 | Environmentalism | an ideology that emphasizes conservation and protection of the environment | | 13 |
| 7223424272 | Environmentally sustainable society | protect natural capital and live of the resources and services it provides | | 14 |
| 7223424273 | exponential growth | Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate | | 15 |
| 7223424274 | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year | | 16 |
| 7223424275 | Input pollution control | Device or process that prevents a potential pollutant from forming or entering the environment or sharply reduces the amount entering the environment | | 17 |
| 7223424276 | natural capital | The natural resources of Earth, such as air, water, and minerals. | | 18 |
| 7223424277 | natural income | Renewable resources such as plants, animals, and soil provided by natural capital. | | 19 |
| 7223424278 | natural resources | raw materials supplied by nature | | 20 |
| 7223424279 | natural services | processes in nature which support life and human economies | | 21 |
| 7223424280 | nondegradable pollutant | material that is not broken down by natural processes | | 22 |
| 7223424281 | Nonpoint sources | A diffuse area that produces pollution | | 23 |
| 7223424282 | nutrient cycling | The recycling of nutrients between living organisms and the environment. | | 24 |
| 7223424283 | Organisms | Any living thing | | 25 |
| 7223424284 | output pollution control | Device or process that removes or reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or has entered the environment | | 26 |
| 7223424285 | per capita | by or for each person. | | 27 |
| 7223424286 | perpetual resource | has a never-ending supply such as solar energy, tidal energy, and wind energy | | 28 |
| 7223424287 | planetary management worldview | believe that humans are the world's most important species and thus should manage Earth's resources for our own benefit | | 29 |
| 7223424288 | point sources | A distinct location from which pollution is directly produced. | | 30 |
| 7223424289 | Pollution | The contamination of Earth's land, water, or air | | 31 |
| 7223424290 | Pollution cleanup | Device or process that removes or reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or has entered the environment | | 32 |
| 7223424291 | Pollution prevention | The reduction or elimination of pollutants at the source | | 33 |
| 7223424292 | social capital | the economic or productive potential of strong, trusting, and cooperative relationships | | 34 |
| 7223424293 | Species | A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring. | | 35 |
| 7223424294 | Stewardship worldview | we have an ethical responsibility to be caring managers, or stewards of the Earth and its finite resources | | 36 |
| 7223424295 | Sustainability | the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely | | 37 |
| 7223424296 | sustainable yield | Replacement of renewable resources at the same rate at which they are consumed | | 38 |
| 7223424297 | Acidity (pH) | the level of acid in substances such as water, soil, or wine | | 39 |
| 7223424298 | atomic number | The number of protons in an atom | | 40 |
| 7223424299 | atomic theory | the idea that everything is made of small particles, by Dalton | | 41 |
| 7223424300 | Cells | Basic unit of life | | 42 |
| 7223424301 | chemical change | A change in which one or more substances combine or break apart to form new substances. | | 43 |
| 7223424302 | chemical element | a pure substance that consists entirely of one type of atom | | 44 |
| 7223424303 | chemical formula | A combination of symbols that represents the elements in a compound. | | 45 |
| 7223424304 | chemical reaction | process that changes, or transforms, one set of chemicals into another set of chemicals | | 46 |
| 7223424305 | Chromosome | structure made of DNA and associated proteins on which genes are located | | 47 |
| 7223424306 | electromagnetic radiation | The energy transferred through space by electromagnetic waves. | | 48 |
| 7223424307 | Elements | Any substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances | | 49 |
| 7223424308 | Energy | The ability to do work or cause change | | 50 |
| 7223424309 | energy quality | a measure of the capacity of a type of energy to do useful work | | 51 |
| 7223424310 | Feedback | results back into system to change rate of that process whether positive or negative | | 52 |
| 7223424311 | feedback loop | A circular process in which a system's output serves as input to that same system. | | 53 |
| 7223424312 | first law of thermodynamics | energy cannot be created or destroyed | | 54 |
| 7223424314 | fossil fuels | Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals. | | 55 |
| 7223424315 | frontier science | Preliminary science data, hypotheses, and models that have not been widely been tested and accepted | | 56 |
| 7223424316 | Genes | Chemical factors that determine traits | | 57 |
| 7223424317 | high-quality energy | Energy that is concentrated and has great ability to person useful work i.e. High temperature and energy in electricity, coal, oil, gas, sunlight, and nuclei of uranium | | 58 |
| 7223424318 | high-quality matter | Matter that is concentrated and contains a high concentration of a useful resource. | | 59 |
| 7223424319 | Inorganic compounds | Compounds that do not contain carbon | | 60 |
| 7223424320 | Inputs | Matter, energy, or information entering a system. | | 61 |
| 7223424321 | Ion | An atom or group of atoms that has a positive or negative charge. | | 62 |
| 7223424322 | Isotopes | Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons. | | 63 |
| 7223424323 | Law of Conservation of Energy | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | | 64 |
| 7223424324 | Law of Conservation of Matter | Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change | | 65 |
| 7223424325 | low-quality energy | energy that is dispersed and has little ability to do useful work | | 66 |
| 7223424326 | low-quality matter | Matter that s dilute or dispersed or contains a low concentration of useful resource | | 67 |
| 7223424327 | mass number | the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom | | 68 |
| 7223424328 | Matter | Anything that has mass and takes up space | | 69 |
| 7223424329 | matter quality | Measure of how useful a matter resource is, based on its availability and concentration. | | 70 |
| 7223424330 | Molecule | A group of atoms bonded together | | 71 |
| 7223424331 | nuclear change | a change in matter within the nuclei of its atoms: radioactive decay, fission, fusion. | | 72 |
| 7223424332 | Nucleus | Center of an atom | | 73 |
| 7223424333 | organic compounds | compounds that contain carbon | | 74 |
| 7223424334 | pH | Indicates relative acidity or alkalinity of substance in a scale of 0 to 14, neutral point of 7. Acid solutions: lower than 7. Basic or alkaline solutions: greater than 7. | | 75 |
| 7223424335 | physical change | A change in a substance that does not involve a change in the identity of the substance | | 76 |
| 7223424336 | reliable science | Concepts and ideas that are widely accepted by experts in a particular field of natural or social sciences. | | 77 |
| 7223424337 | Science | An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world. | | 78 |
| 7223424338 | scientific hypothesis | An educated guess that attempts to explain a scientific law or certain scientific observation | | 79 |
| 7223424339 | Scientific natural law | Description of what scientists find happening in nature repeatedly in the same way without known exception | | 80 |
| 7223424340 | scientific theory | A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results. | | 81 |
| 7223424341 | second law of thermodynamics | Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. | | 82 |
| 7223424342 | synergistic interactions | Risks that cause more harm together than expected based on separate individual risks. | | 83 |
| 7223424343 | Synergy | the power that results from the combination of two or more forces | | 84 |
| 7223424344 | System | an organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole | | 85 |
| 7223424345 | Throughputs | Rate or flow of matter, energy, or information through a system. | | 86 |
| 7223424346 | tipping point | the point at which a fundamental shift in the behavior of a system occurs | | 87 |
| 7235507130 | Flow | involves a mixing of particles within a moving mass | | 88 |
