APES ch 1 Flashcards

5010518268	environmental science	the field that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature	0
5010518269	system	any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials	1
5010518270	ecosystem	a particular location on Earth whose interacting components include living or nonliving components	2
5010518271	biotic	living	3
5010518272	abiotic	nonliving	4
5010518276	ecosystem services	the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced	5
5010518278	sustainability	living on Earth in a way that allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources	6
5010518279	biodiversity	the diversity of life forms in an environment	7
5010518281	background extinction rate	the average rate at which species go extinct over the long term	8
5010518282	greenhouse gases	heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere	9
5010518283	anthropogenic	effects derived from human activities	10
5010518285	sustainable development	development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations	11
5010518286	ecological footprint	a measure of how much that person consumes, expressed in area of land	12
5010518288	hypothesis	a testable conjecture about how something works	13
5010518293	inductive reasoning	the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples	14
5010518294	deductive reasoning	the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations	15
5010518296	theory	a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance	16
5010518297	natural law	a theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing	17