Chapter 1 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Organization
the act or process of organizing.
Sustainable
The ability to meet a community’s present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Correlation
A relationship between one event or action and another.
Causal relationship
Two correlated events when one event (called the cause) directly produces another event (called the effect)
Adaptation
the act of adapting
Reproduction
the natural process among organisms by which new individuals are generated and the species perpetuated.
Development
the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
Homeostasis
the tendency to maintain, or the maintenance of, normal, internal stability in an organism by coordinated responses of the organ systems that automatically compensate for environmental changes (to keep your body at normal temperature when temperatures rise
Metabolism
the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
Observation
an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
Prediction
an act of predicting.
Hypothesis
a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
Experiment
a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc.: a chemical experiment; a teaching experiment; an experiment in living.
Peer review
evaluation of a person’s work or performance by a group of people in the same occupation, profession, or industry
Indicator
a pointing or directing device, as a pointer on the dial of an instrument to show pressure, temperature, speed, volume.
Sustainability
the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing sustainability standards for products that use energy.
Degradation
the act of degrading.
Trade off
the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
Scientific method
a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
Evidence
that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
Independent variable
Statistics . (in an experiment) a variable that is intentionally changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable. dependent variable(def 2), control variable(def 1).
Dependent variable
Statistics. (in an experiment) the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed. Compare independent variable(def 2), control variable(def 1).
Eutrophication
A dramatic increase of available nutrients in the water, resulting in an increase in plant growth
Experimental group
(in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects who are exposed to the variable under study: a lower infection rate in the experimental group that received the vaccine.
