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Environment
Chapter 1 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abiotic | Physical and chemical components of the environment |
| Anthropocentric | Human centered; for example, human centered environmental ethics |
| Biocentric | The effects of actions on all living organisms |
| Biological Environment | The kinds and diversity of pathogens, predators, parasites, and competitors with which an organism interacts |
| Biotic | Living components of the environment |
| Conflict of Interest | Competing interests including personal, philosophical, financial interests that might interfere with an objective judgement |
| Conservation | The preservation, wise use, or restoration of species, ecosystems, or natural resources |
| Conservation Ethic | A philosophy of resource management that promotes the efficient use of natural resources to provide the greatest good to the greatest number of people |
| Control Group | A baseline for comparisons |
| Data | The measurements made during a scientific study |
| Ecocentric | Extension of moral obligation beyond organisms to the nonliving components of the environment, emphasizing the integrity of whole natural systems |
| Ecological Footprint | The environmental impact of human population as the area of land and sea needed to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb the wastes it produces |
| Environment | The physical surroundings that affect an organism |
| Environmental Ethics | The branch of philosophy that concerns the moral responsibilities of humans with regard to the environment |
| Environmental Justice | The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and polices. |
| Environmentalism | An ideological and social movement that advocates the protection of the environment from human harm through political action and education |
| Field Experiments | Experiments in which the experimenter generally controls or manipulates a single factor, the factor of interest, while allowing all other factors to say normally |
| Hypothesis | An explanation of an observation, or a set of relationships, based on a limited amount of information; hypotheses are used to guide scientific experiments, observation, and modeling |
| Laboratory Experiments | Experiments in which scientists attempt to control, or keep constant, all factors that may influence their study system, while they vary the factor of interest and observe the effect of the variation on the study system |
| Land Ethic | An ecocentric system of environmental ethics proposed by Aldo Leopold to promote the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biological community |
| Models | In science, simplified representations of a system, constructed on a scale more convenient for study than the actual system of interest |
| Nonrenewable Resources | Natural resources, such as fossil fuels, that exist in a limited supply and are not renewed on timescales meaningful to humans |
| Observation | Qualitative or quantitative information gathered systematically from the natural world |
| Ozone | A molecule made up of three oxygen atoms; considered a pollutant i the lower atmosphere, but in the upper atmosphere it shields against potentially harmful rays from the Sun |
| Peer Review | Part of the process of publishing scientific papers, experts in field of research covered by prospective scientific paper review the research prior to publication; check for soundness of methods, analyses, results, coverage of relevant prior publications |
| Precautionary Principle | A principle advising that precautionary measures should be taken to protect human or environmental health, even if some cause and effect relationships related to potential threats are not fully understood scientifically |
| Preservation Ethic | An environmental ethic emphasizing the protection of natural ecosystems in their original unspoiled states |
| Renewable Resources | Natural resources, such as wood, forage, or fish, that are replaced through natural processes on relatively short timescales and thus can last indefinitely under careful management |
| Science | A formal process used to study nature, and the body of knowledge resulting from that process |
| Stratosphere | The layer of Earth's atmosphere beginning at an elevation of 10 kilometers and extending outward to 50 kilometers above sea level |
| Sustainablility | The wise use of resources to ensure our ability to endure and live healthy lives, without compromising the welfare of future generations |
| Technology | Practical application of scientific knowledge and methods to create products and processes |
| Theory | A scientific hypothesis that has withstood sufficient testing-through observation, experimentation, and modeling-so it has a high probability of being correct |
| Ultraviolet (UV) Light | Shorter-Wavelength, higher energy rays from the Sun that can damage living tissue |
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