Environmental Science U1 Vocabulary

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science

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A logical way of thinking about the world

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environment

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All living things and the nonliving things with which they interact

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environmental activism

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A social movement in which people or organizations advocate for protection of the natural environment

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ecology

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A purely scientific study of natural environments

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scientific method

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A term used to describe the way in which scientists gather and use information

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hypothesis

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A testable explanation for a question or problem

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observation

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The act of gathering information through the five human senses

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inference

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A logical guess or prediction

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independent variable

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The variable that you change

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dependent variable

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The variable that you are measuring and that changes because of the independent variable