Ch. 1 Vocab Flashcards
All the living and non-living things around us.
Environment
The study of:
How the natural world works
How the environment affects humans and vice versa
Environmental Science
Substances and energy sources needed for survival.
Natural resources
Can be replenished or perpetually renewed.
Renewable Natural Resources
Uunavailable after depletion
Nonrenewable Natural Resources
Arise from the normal functioning of natural services.
Ecosystem Services
Crops, livestock, and Stable food supplies
Agricultural Revolution
Urbanized society powered by fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal)
Industrial Revolution
Unregulated exploitation of public resources leads to depletion and damage.
Tragedy of The Commons
The environmental impact of a person or population.
Ecological footprint
Humans have surpassed the Earth’s capacity to support us
Overshoot
A statement that tries to explain the question
Hypothesis
Specific statements that can be directly tested
Predictions
A condition that can change
Variable
Can be manipulated
Independent Variable
Depends on the independent variable
Dependent Variable
An unmanipulated point of comparison
Control
Yield the strongest evidence and reveals causal relationships
Manipulative experiments
Show real-world complexity, results are not neat and clean, answers aren’t black and white
Natural Experiments
A well-tested and widely accepted explanation
Theory
A dramatic upheaval in thought that changes the dominant viewpoint
Paradigm
Conserving resources and developing long-term solutions to keep fully functioning ecosystems
Sustainability
Earth’s total wealth of resources
Natural Capital
