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10644501486	What year was the Neuse River thing a thing	1991	0
10644501487	What university and what professor investigates the neuse river	North Carolina University and Professor JoAnn Burkholder	1
10644501488	Pfiesteria	an algae that can become toxic and kill fish, reproduce quickly Has 24 life stages	2
10644501489	What caused the Neuse river fish crisis	The release of waste material into the river awoke the dormant pfiesteria and the excess nutrients made them carnivorous	3
10644501490	environment	The sum of your surroundings that influence life	4
10644501491	Environmental science	The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature	5
10644501492	System	any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials	6
10644501493	Ecosystem	a particular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components	7
10644501494	Biotic	Living	8
10644501495	Abiotic	Non-living	9
10644501496	Environmentalist	a person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education	10
10644501497	Environmental studies	includes environmental science, the study of interactions among human systems and those found in nature along with other subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature and ethics.	11
10644501498	the global environment is composed of...	Small scale and large scale systems	12
10644501499	What species manipulate their environment more than any other species	Humans	13
10644501500	Length genus Homo has roamed the earth	2.5 million years	14
10644501501	Extinct or nah: passenger pigeon	Yeah, it is. Humans are destructive	15
10644501502	Extinct or nah: American Bison	No, but almost	16
10644501503	Have humans created opportunities for species to thrive?	Yeah, Native Americans set fires on plains, this created an ecosystem of the the tall grass prairie	17
10644501504	ecosystem services	the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced	18
10644501505	environmental indicators	describe the current state of an environmental system	19
10644501506	Sustainability	The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.	20
10644501507	biological diversity	The diversity of life forms in an environment	21
10644501508	What are the three scales of biodiversity	Global, species, ecosystem	22
10644501509	genetic diversity	a measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population	23
10644501510	species diversity	indicates the number of species in a region or in a particular type of habitat	24
10644501511	How many catalogued species on earth?	2 million	25
10644501512	Estimate if total number of species on earth	5 million to 100 million (common estimate is 10 million)	26
10644501513	Is species diversity a critical environmental factor?	YeaH! LIKE IF YOU LOOK AT FROGS AND THEYRE DYINF, IT BE BECAUSE OF THE WATER AND OR THE AIR	27
10644501514	Speciation	Formation of new species. Average rate is three new species a year.	28
10644501515	background extinction rate	The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term; the rate is about one species per a million a year	29
10681425657	Five environmental indicators	Biodiversity Food Production Average Global Surface Temperature and CO2 Concentrations Human Population	30
10681425658	food production	our ability to grow food to nourish the human populations	31
10681425659	Anthropogenic	derived from human activities	32
10681425660	Development	improvement in human well-being through economic advancement	33
10681425661	What percent of the global population owns 87% of the worlds cars, 58% of all energy, 84% of paper, 45% meat	20%	34
10681425662	How much does the poorest 20% of human population use of resources	Less than 5%	35
10681425663	sustainable development	development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations	36
10681425664	complex needs	human interaction/interaction with nature "biophilia"=love of life	37
10681425665	ecological footprint	William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel Measure of how much a person consumes m, expressed in area of land	38
10681425666	Scientific Method	an objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes	39
10681425667	Hypothesis	A testable prediction, often implied by a theory	40
10681425668	null hypothesis	a statement or idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong	41
10681425669	Replication	Several sets of measurements	42
10681425670	Sample size	the number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection	43
10681425671	Accuracy	how close a measurement is to the true value	44
10681425672	Precision	how close a group of measurements are to each other	45
10681425673	uncertainty	An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value	46
10681425674	inductive reasoning	the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples	47
10681425675	deductive reasoning	the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations	48
10681425676	Theory	a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance	49
10681425677	Natural Law	a theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing	50
10681425678	control group	a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study	51
10681425679	natural experiment	a natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem	52
10681425680	Greatest challenge to environmental science	No undisturbed Baseline to compare compare contemporary earth	53
10681425681	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 harms to different ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society.	54
10681425682	Mono lake salinity is greater or less than the ocean	2x greater in 1941	55
10681425683	When did mono lake start recovering	Summer 2009	56
10681425684	Atom	Smallest particle of an element	57
10681425685	Element	a substance composed of atoms that cannot be broken down into smaller, simpler components	58
10681425686	periodic table	A table that shows the elements, their atomic number, symbol, and average atomic mass; elements with similar chemical properties are grouped together.	59
10681425687	Molecules	particles containing more than one atom	60
10681425688	Compounds	molecules that contain more than one element	61
10681425689	atomic number	the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom	62
10681425690	mass number	the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom	63
10681425691	Isotopes	Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons	64
10681425692	radioactive decay	the spontaneous release of material from the nucleus of radioactive isotopes	65
10681425693	half-life	the time it takes for half of the atoms of a radioactive element to decay	66
10681425694	covalent bond	A chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule	67
10681425695	ionic bond	Formed when one or more electrons are transferred from one atom to another	68
10681425696	Hydrogen bond	weak attraction between a hydrogen atom and another atom	69
10681425697	polar molecule	one end of the molecule is slightly negative and the other end is slightly positive	70
10681425698	surface tension	the force that acts on the surface of a liquid and that tends to minimize the area of the surface	71
10681425699	capillary action	the attraction of the surface of a liquid to the surface of a solid	72
10681425700	Boiling and freezing point of water	100 degrees Celsius and 0 degrees Celsius	73
10681425701	Acid	A substance that increases the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution.	74
10681425702	Base	a compound that produces hydroxide ions in solution	75
10681425703	pH scale	scale with values from 0 to 14, used to measure the concentration of H+ ions in a solution; a pH of 0 to 7 is acidic, a pH of 7 is neutral, and a pH of 7 to 14 is basic It is logarithmic	76
10681425704	chemical reaction	the process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances	77
10681425705	Law of Conservation of Matter	Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change	78
10681425706	Exception to law of conservation of matter	In nuclear reactions, small amounts of matter change into energy	79
10681425707	inorganic compounds	A compound that does not contain the element carbon or contains carbon bound to elements other than hydrogen.	80
10681425708	organic compounds	compounds that contain carbon and hydrogen	81
10681425709	Carbohydrates	compound made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms; major source of energy for the human body	82
10681425710	Proteins	made up of long chains of nitrogen-containing organic molecules called amino acids	83
10681425711	nucleic acids	DNA and RNA	84
10681425712	Lipids	do not dissolve in water	85
10681425713	Cell	a highly organized living entity that consists of the four types of macromolecules and other substances in a watery solution, surrounded by a membrane	86
10681425714	Energy	the ability to do work or transfer heat	87
10681425715	electromagnetic radiation	A form of energy emitted by the Sun that includes, but is not limited to, visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared energy.	88
10681425716	Photons	massless packets of energy that travel at the speed of light and can move even through the vacuum of space	89
10681425717	Joule	the amount of energy used when a one-watt electrical device is turned on for one second	90
10681425718	Power	the rate at which work is done	91
10681425719	potential energy	Energy that is stored and held in readiness	92
10681425720	kinetic energy	energy of motion	93
10681425721	chemical energy	potential energy stored in chemical bonds	94
10681425722	Temperature	a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter	95
10681425723	first law of thermodynamics	Energy cannot be created or destroyed	96
10681425724	second law of thermodynamics	when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes	97
10681425725	energy efficiency	The ratio of the amount of work done to the total amount of energy introduced to the system	98
10681425726	energy quality	the ease with which an energy source can be used for work	99
10681425727	Entropy	A measure of disorder or randomness	100
10681425728	open system	exchanges of matter or energy occur across system boundaries	101
10681425729	closed system	a system in which matter and energy exchanges do not occur across boundaries	102
10681425730	Inputs	additions to a given system	103
10681425731	output	a loss from a system	104
10681425732	system analysis	Determining inputs, outputs, and changes in the system under various conditions	105
10681425733	steady state	a state in which inputs equal outputs, so that the system is not changing over time	106
10681425734	Feedback	the results of a process feed back into the system to change the rate of that process	107
10681425735	negative feedback loop	A feedback loop in which a system responds to a change by returning to its original state, or by decreasing the rate at which the change is occurring.	108
10681425736	positive feedback loop	a feedback loop in which change in a system is amplified	109
10681425737	adaptive management plan	a strategy that provides flexibility so that managers can modify it as future changes occur	110