APES Chapter 1 Vocabulary House

Erin Kelley

196281437	Environment	The sum of all conditions surrounding us that influence life
196281438	Environmental Science	The field thar looks at interactions among human systems and nature.
196281439	System	Interacting components that influence one another by exchaning energy or materials.
196281440	Ecosystem	A particular location on earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components.
196281441	Biotic	Living
196281442	Abiotic	Nonliving
196281443	Environmentalist	A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through activism.
196281444	Environmental Studies	The field of study including environmental science, policy, economics, literature and ethics.
196281445	Ecosystem Services	Natural enivronments provide life-supporting resources.
196281446	Environmental Indicators	Describes the current state of an environmental system.
196281447	Sustainability	Using earth's resources without depriving future gernerations of those resources.
196281448	Biodiversity	The diversity of life forms in an environment.
196281449	Species	A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups.
196281450	Speciation	The evolution of new species
196281451	Backround Extinction Rate	The average rate at which species go extinct over the long term.
196281452	Green House Gases	A gas in earths atmosphere that traps heat near the surface.
196281453	Anthropogenic	Derived from human activity
196281454	Development	Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement.
196281455	Biophilia	Love of Life
196281456	Ecological Footprint	A measure of how much a person consumes, expressed in area of land.
196281457	Scientific Method	An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferenced from it, and predict the outcome of certain events.
196281458	Hypothesis	a testable conjecture about how something works.
196281459	Null Hypothesis	A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong.
196281460	Replication	To take several sets of measurments.
196281461	Sample Size	The number of times a measurment is replicated.
196281462	Accuracy	How close a measured value is to the actual or true value.
196281463	Precision	How close to one another the repeated measurments of the same sample are.
196281464	Uncertainty	An estimate of how much a measure differs from a true value.
196281465	Inductive Reasoning	Process of making general statements from specific facts.
196281466	Deductive Reasoning	Process of appling a general statemtne to specific facts or sutuations.
196281467	Critical Thinking	The process essential to all scientific endeavor.
196281468	Theory	A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by mulitple groups of researchers and reaches wide acceptance.
196281469	Natural Law	The theory to which there is no exceptions and has withstood rigorous testing.
196281470	Control Group	A group that experience exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for a single variable under study.
196281471	Natural Experiment	Occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem.
196281472	Environmental Justice	A social movement and the field of study that works toward equal enforcement of environmental laws.
196281473	Sustainable Development	Balances current human well-being and economic advances with resource management for the benefit of future generations.