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15 Cards in this Set
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Abiotic |
Non living environmental factors |
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Biotic |
Living environmental factors |
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Biodiversity |
The diversity of life forms in an environment |
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Ecology |
The study of the distribution, abundance and interaction of factors in an environment |
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Environment |
The abiotic and biotic factors we interact with in our environment |
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Environmental indicators |
Something that Describes the current state of an environment |
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Anthropogenic |
Human caused |
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Enviornmentalism |
Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world |
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Hypothesis |
A testable idea about how something works |
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Manipulative experiment |
An experiment in which the researcher actively manipulates the independent variable |
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Natural Experiment |
A natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem |
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Non renewable resource |
Self explanatory |
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Renewable resource |
Self explanatory |
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Species |
A population of an organism that share certain traits and can freely produce offspring |
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Theory |
A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by researchers |
