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environment The sum of our total surroundings, including all living and nonliving things with which we interact
nonrenewable natural resources NATURAL resources that are limited in supply and are formed much more slowly than we use them
interdisciplinary involving/borrowing techniques from multiple traditional fields and bringing together results from these fields into broad synthesis
treatment portion of an experiment where a variable has been manipulated to test its effects
hypothesis statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question
campus sustainability wide array of efforts on a college/university by which people on the campus are trying to reduce their environmental impacts
natural sciences academic disciplines that study the natural world
ecological footprint how much a person/population consumes based off of the total area of the earth
ecosystem services what an ecosystem can naturally do by which humans benefit
independent variable variable that the scientist manipulates in an experiment
natural capital earth's accumulated wealth of natural resources and ecosystem services
fossil fuel nonrenewable natural resource that's produced by the decomposition and compression of organic matter
paradigm dominant philosophical and theoretical framework within a scientific discipline
overshoot amount by which humanity's resource use, measured by ecological footprint, has surpassed Earth's capacity to support us
environmental science scientific study of how the natural world functions, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment
peer review providing commentary on a scientific manuscript
sustainability principle of environmental science, conserving resources, maintaining functioning ecological systems, developing long term solutions so earth can sustain living creatures
agricultural revolution shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agricultural where people began to raise animals and grow crops
environmental studies emphasizes the social sciences as well as natural sciences
prediction specific statement, generally arising from a hypothesis, that can be tested directly and unequivocally
hypothesis-driven science research in which scientists pose questions that seek to explain why and how things are the way they are. Somewhat structured
renewable natural resources natural resources that are virtually unlimited or replenished by the environment over relatively short periods of time
environmentalism a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world and, by extension, people
controlled experiment experiment in which a treatment is compared against a control in order to test the effect of a variable
control portion of an experiment when a variable has been left unmanipulated, to serve as a point of comparison with the treatment
correlation statistical association between variables. Association may be casual or may occur by chance
variable a condition that can change
descriptive science research in which scientists gather basic info about organisms, materials, systems, or processes that aren't well known
natural resource any various substances and energy sources that we take from our environment and need in order to survive
experiment an activity designed to test the validity of a hypothesis by manipulating variables
social sciences academic disciplines that study human interactions and institutions
industrial revolution the shift from rural life to industrialization and an urban society powered by fossil fuels
environmental literacy basic understanding of earth's physical living systems and how we interact with them.
science a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it. The accumulated body of knowledge that arises from this dynamic process
data info, generally quantitative info
theory widely accepted/well-tested explanation for 1 or more cause-effect relationships thats been validated by research
scientific method formalized method for testing ideas with observations that involves a more-or-less consistent series of interrelated steps
dependent variable variable that is affected by manipulation of the independent variable in an experiment
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