Apes Flashcards

4761912938	environment,	everything around us living and nonliving. JFS	0
4761931282	environmental science,	study of the natural worlds functions, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment. JFS	1
4761938585	natural resources	any substance and energy that we take from our environment to survive. JFS	2
4761944049	renewable natural resources	any natural resource that renews itself on its own that will not run out. I.E sunlight. JFS	3
4761947488	nonrenewable natural resources	natural resources that are in limited supplies. JFS	4
4761949997	ecosystems services	it is what the ecosystems do like purifying the air, and makes economic activity possible. JFS	5
4761961273	agricultural revolution	the shift every 10000 years from a hunter/gatherer life to an agricultural way of life. JFS	6
4761965023	industrial revolution	shift from a rural life to an urban society in the mid-1700's. JFS	7
4761970083	fossils fuels	a nonrenewable resource like crude oil, natural gas or coal, made by the decomposition and compression of organic matter. JFS	8
4761976759	ecological footprint	the cumulative area of biologically productive land and water required to provide the raw materials a person/ population consumes and disposes of. JFS	9
4761982247	overshoot	the amount of resources humans use measured by the ecological footprint. we have passed over earths capacity to support us. JFS	10
4761995008	interdisciplinary field	a field that borrows techniques from multiple fields of study and brings together research results into a broad synthesis. JFS	11
4762004965	natural sciences	disciplines that study the natural world. JFS	12
4762010625	social sciences	disciplines that study human interactions and institutions	13
4762021595	environmental studies	academic enviromental science programs that emphasizes the social sciences as well as natural sciences	14
4762027916	environmentalism	social movement to protect the natural world	15
4762031321	science	systematic process for learning about the world and everything in it	16
4762035121	observational science	it is a science that is based on the observation of a group that has nothing done to them	17
4762037058	discriptive science	reserch in which scientist gather basic info about materials, systems or processes.	18
4764968515	hypothesis-driven science	research where scientist pose questions that seek to explain how and why things are.	19
4764971781	scientific method	a formalized method for testing ideas. J.S	20
4764974949	hypothesis	a statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon, or answer a scientific question	21
4764977349	predictions	a specific statement generally arising from a hypothesis can be tested	22
4764980832	experiment	an activity to test the validity of a hypothesis	23
4765002489	variables	in an experiment a condition that can change	24
4765004118	independent variables	the variable that the scientist manipulates in a experiment	25
4765006666	dependent variable	the variable that is affected by the manipulation of an independent variable	26
4765010738	controlled experiment	an experiment in which a treatment is compared to a control in order to take a variable	27
4765013884	control	a portion of the experiment in which a variable has been left unaffected to serve as a point of comparison	28
4765023228	treatment	a portion of an experiment that has been manipulated in an experiment	29
4765029803	data	info from an experiment	30
4765031480	manipulative experiment	an experiment in which the researchers actively chooses and manipulates the independent variable	31
4765036217	natural experiment	an experiment that the reasearcher can not directly influence the variables	32
4765040056	correlation	a statistical association among variables	33
4765041576	peer review	the process by which a manuscript is submitted for publication in an academic journal and is reviewed by specialist in that field	34
4765047740	theory	a widely accepted well tested explanation of one or more cause and affect relationship that has been extensively validated by a great amount of reaserch	35
4765053582	paradigm	a dominant philosophical and theoretical framework within a scientific disipline	36
4765057128	sustanabiltity	the guiding principle of enviromental science that makes sure humans are using enough resources to keep us alive but not enough to deplete the resources of the earth	37
4765061770	natural capital	earths accumulated wealth of resources	38
4768294728	hypothisis driven science	reaserch where the scientis pose a question to explain the how and why things are.	39