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37 Cards in this Set
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Environment
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The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life
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Environmental Science
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The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature
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System
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Any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials
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Ecosystem
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Particular location on Earth whose interacting components include biotic and abiotic components
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Biotic
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Living
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Abiotic
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Nonliving
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Environmentalist
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Person who participates in environmentalism
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Environmental Studies
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Environmental policy, economics,literature, and ethics
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Ecosystem Services
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The process by which life-supporting resources are produced
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Environmental Indicators
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Describe the current state of an environmental system
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Sustainability
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Living on Earth in a way the allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources
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Boidiversity
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Diversity of life forms in an environment
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Species
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Group of organisms that is distinct from other in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties
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Speciation
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Evolution of a new species
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Backgrounds Extinction Rate
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The average rate at which species go extinct over the long term
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Greenhouse Gases
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Heat trapping gas that acts as a blanket in Earth's atmosphere
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Anthropogenic
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Derived from human activities
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Development
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Improvement in human well being through economic advancement
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Sustainable Development
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Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations
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Biophilia
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Love of life
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Ecological Footprint
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Measure of how much that person consumes, expressed in land area
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Scientific Method
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Objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes
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Hypothesis
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Testable conjecture about how something works
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Null Hypothesis
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Statement or idea that can be falsified, proved wrong
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Replication
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Taking several sets of measurements
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Sample Size
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Number of times a measurement is replicated
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Accuracy
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How closea measured value is to the actual or true value
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Precision
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How close to one another the repeated measurements of the same sample are
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Uncertainty
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An estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value
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Inductive Reasoning
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Proces of making general statementsfrom specific facts or examples
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Deductive Reasoning
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The process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations
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Critical Thinking
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Questioning the source of the information, considering the methods or processes that were used to obtain the information, and draw your own conclusions
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Theory
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Hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groupsof researchers and has reached a wide acceptance
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Natural Law
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Theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing
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Control Group
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Group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study
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Natural Experiment
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Occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem
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Environmental Justice
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Social movement and field of study that works toward equal enforcement of environmental laws and the elimination of disparities, whether intended or unintended, in how pollutants and other environmental harms are distributed among the various ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society
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