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Chapter 1 Scientific Method And Climate Change Flashcards

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1
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What is life? Name many of the components

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Cells= prokaryotic and eukaryotic
Homeostasis
Carbon compounds
Growth/ Development
Reproduction
Natural selection
Energy production

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Layers of the biosphere ( General to specific)

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Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Species
Population

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Attributes of life

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Order
Sensitivity
Evolution
Expression/ transmission of genes

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What are the levels of organizations (smallest to largest)

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Atoms
Molecules
Macromolecules
Macro molecular assembly
Cell
Tissue
Organ
Organ system
Organism

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5
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Does correlation guarantee causation?

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No, if a hypothesis is supported it may suggest causation

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Hypothesis

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Tentative explanation

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What is a prediction?

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Expected outcome

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Where does the Dependent variable go in the axis’s?

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Y axis

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9
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Where does the Independent variable go in the axis’s?

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X axis

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What’s inductive reasoning?

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An observation that arrives to a theory

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What’s deductive reasoning?

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A theory that arrived to observations

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12
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Why is a peer review important?

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It measures the strength and credibility of your data

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13
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What causes climate change? (Name At least 3)

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Green house gases
Deforestation
Albedo effect
Deterioration of ozone layer
Suns luminosity increase
Volcanoes
Natural variation

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Why is there a correlation between CO2 and temperature?

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If temperature increases, more carbon dioxide is being exposed. If carbon dioxide emissions increases, more heat is going to be released to the atmosphere

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Deforestation

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Land use change

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What is climate change?

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Directional change to the global climate that last for more than 3 decades.

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What has climate change affected?

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Wind patterns
Storms droughts
Deforestation
Animal extinction

18
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What is evolution?

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Process of change overtime that has resulted in the outstanding array of organisms found on earth.

19
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Difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

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Prokaryotes lack a nucleus and eukaryotes don’t. They also contain cytoplasm and chloroplast.

20
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What is DNA?

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Deoxyribonucleic acid

21
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Genes

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Each section of the DNA of a chromosome

22
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Gene expressions

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The sequence of genes that provides a blueprint for protein production

23
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What are the 4 binding nuclei acids ?

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A-T and C-G

24
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What does an Antibody do?

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Fights infections

25
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MRNA _ protein

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Transfers

26
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Genomics

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Entire library of genetic instructions of an organism

27
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How much is the Earth heating up?

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Two degrees

28
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What is the green house effect ?

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Gases that are trapped in our atmosphere that trap and slow down heat that would escape the earth

29
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How does the GHE causes global warming?

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Many trapped gases such as Carbon dioxide and methane are being trapped because of the amount of emissions

30
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How do we know humans are responsible for the increase
in carbon dioxide?

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Due to human activity such as burning of fossil fuels and natural emissions

31
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Why do people deny the science of climate change?

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Market orientations

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What could happen for such change in climate ?

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Extreme weather, lots of animal habitats, deterioration of ice caps.

33
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What is the Paris agreement?

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Virtually every country agreed to limit future emissions.

34
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Does clean energy help or hurt the economy?

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Good: Job growth in renewable energy is strong
Bad: costly

35
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What is fracking ?

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Hydraulic fracturing that excavates coal instead of burning

36
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What is clean coal?

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Approach in which emissions from coal burning power plants would be captured and pumped under ground

37
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scientific hypothesis

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if then and because

38
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statistical hypothesis

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showing correlation

39
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null hypothesis

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showing no correlation between variables

40
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alternate hypothesis

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correlation between two variables

41
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prediction

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what you expect to happen

42
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theory

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prediction or hypothesis tested and proven to be true yet falsified

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