Introduction

Question 1

What is Environmental Science?

Answer 1

Is an interdisciplinary field that integrates physical and biological sciences to study the environment and the solutions to environmental problems.

Question 2

What does Environmental issues effect?

Answer 2

Environmental issues effect every part of your life.

Question 3

How do we asses what’s important in Environmental Issues?

Answer 3

Critical thinking - develop skills to analyze and evaluate the validity of information - decide what to believe

Questioning attitude towards to knowledge, facts or opinions/beliefs stated as facts

Requires all information to be well supported by evidence

Open minded, flexible , humble

Evaluate how information is obtained

Identify and assess the assumptions of those presenting the data and how they draw conclusion

Question 4

What is critical thinking?

Answer 4

Observing something you see and a day to day basis and questioning its validity.

Where did the information come from?

Assumptions

Question 5

What is the 5 step process of critical thinking?

Answer 5

Formulate your questions.
Gather your information.
Apply the information.
Consider the implications.
Explore other points of view.

Question 6

What is population?

Answer 6

the abundance of people and their mutualistic species

Question 7

What are Resources?

Answer 7

the use and abuse of nonrenewable and renewable natural resources

Question 8

What is Environmental Damage?

Answer 8

the effects of pollution, disturbances and other issues.

Question 9

What are examples of human population growth having diverse causes and consequences?

Answer 9

Death rate decrease
Birth rate declining, woman independence
Decrease through war and resource hungry

Question 10

What are examples of Environmental Concerns?

Answer 10

Air pollution
Land use and waste management
Water management
Greenhouse gas emissions
Invasive species
Drinking water supplies

Question 11

What is Environmental ethics?

Answer 11

Values, rights and obligations

Question 12

What are Utilitarian Values?

Answer 12

are based on the usefulness of something to human welfare.

Question 13

What are Ecological values?

Answer 13

are related to the utility of something to both humans and other species, as well as natural ecosystems

Question 14

What are Aesthetic values?

Answer 14

are based on an appreciation of beauty including that of the natural world

Question 15

What are Intrinsic value?

Answer 15

insist that all entities have inherent worth and a right to exist regardless of the needs of people

Question 16

What is scire?

Answer 16

to know

Question 17

What is the scientific method?

Answer 17

A body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge or correcting and integrating previous knowledge

To be termed scientific a method of inquiry must be based on “empirical” and “measurable” evidence subject to specific principle of reasoning

Repeatability

Never prove things in science

Question 18

What is reproducibility?

Answer 18

the capacity for a particular result to be observed or obtained more than once.

Question 19

What is replication?

Answer 19

repeating studies or tests to verify reliability

Question 20

What is deductive reasoning?

Answer 20

Deriving testable prediction about specific cases from general principles

Derive things from big picture to smaller picture?

Taking bigger observation to infer smaller the smaller picture

Question 21

What is inductive reasoning?

Answer 21

hindering general principles from specific examples

Taken experience through repetition

Small observation to make a bigger observation/picture

(seeing a certain fish appear during seasons every year to assume or predict a reasoning that they always appear that season)

Question 22

What is statistics?

Answer 22

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.

Question 23

What is ecology?

Answer 23

is the study of the relationships of organisms and their environment, oikoc, “house”

Question 24

What does the realm of Ecology encompasses?

Answer 24

Individual organisms
Populations
Communities
Landscapes and seascapes

Question 25

What is biotic environment?

Answer 25

Environmental influences caused by living organisms

Predator prey interactions

Inter and intraspecific competition for resources

Parasitism and infection
reproduction

Question 26

What is the difference between Inter and intraspecific species?

Answer 26

Inter = between two species
Intra = within a species

Question 27

What is biophysical environment?

Answer 27

the complex of biotic,
climatic, and edaphic factors that act upon an organism
and determine its form and survival

Question 28

What is an Abiotic Environment?

Answer 28

Environmental influences produced by non-living entities

*Temperature
*pH
*Radiation
*Water
*Pressure
*Sound

Question 29

What is an ecosystem approach?

Answer 29

does not view an ecosystem as a random
grouping of populations, species, communities, and environments —
rather, it confirms them as intrinsically connected and interdependent,
although in varying degrees

Question 30

What is an ecological footprint?

Answer 30

is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems