APES Friedland Ch 1 Flashcards

8738714502	environment	The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life	0
8738714503	environmental science	The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature	1
8738714504	system	Any set of interacting components that infludence one another by exchanging energy or materials	2
8738714505	ecosystem	a partiular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components	3
8738714506	biotic	living	4
8738714507	abiotic	nonliving	5
8738714508	environmentalist	A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education	6
8738714509	environmental studies	The field of study that includes environmental science, environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics among others	7
8738714510	ecosystem services	The process by which natural environments provide life-supporting resources	8
8738714511	environmental indicators	Something that describes the current state of an environmental system	9
8738714512	sustainability	Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources	10
8738714513	biodiversity	The diversity of life forms in an environment	11
8738714514	species	A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties	12
8738714515	speciation	The evolution of a new species	13
8738714516	background extinction rate	The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term	14
8738714517	greenhouse gases	a gas in Earth's atmosphere that traps heat near the surface	15
8738714518	anthropogenic	Derived from human activities	16
8738714519	development	Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement	17
8738714520	sustainable development	Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of guture generation	18
8738714521	biophilia	An appreciaton of life	19
8738714522	ecological footprint	A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land	20
8738714523	scientific method	An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences for it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes	21
8738714524	hypothesis	A testable theory or supposition about how something works	22
8738714525	null hypothesis	A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proven wrong	23
8738714526	replication	The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements	24
8738714527	sample size	The number of times a measurement is replicated in the data collection process	25
8738714528	accuracy	How close a measured value is to the actual or true value	26
8738714529	precision	How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another	27
8738714530	uncertainty	An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value	28
8738714531	inductive reasoning	The process of making general statements from specific fats or examples	29
8738714532	deductive reasoning	The process of applying a general satement to specific facts or situations	30
8738714533	critical thinking	The process of questioning the soure of information, considering the methods used to obtain the information, and drawing conclusions; essential to all scientific endevors	31
8738714534	theory	A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance	32
8738714535	control group	A set that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study	33
8738714536	natural experiment	A natural event that acts an an experimental treatment in an ecosystem	34
8738714537	environmental justice	A social movement and field of study that focuses on equal enforcement of environmental laws and eliminating disparities in the exposure of environmental harm to different ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society	35