Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Chapter 1
Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

Ecological Footprint

• Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

• All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

• The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

Lesson 1.1

Our Island, Earth

The following slides are working with the vocabulary from section 1 of the chapter.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition for the term:

Ecological Footprint

• Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

• Found in nature and humans need to survive

• Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

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What is the definition for the term:

Natural Resource

• Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

• Nonrenewable energy resources

• Found in nature and humans need to survive

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What is the definition for the term:

Environmental Science

• Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

• The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

• All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

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What is the definition for the term:

Renewable Natural Resource

• Naturally formed much slower than we use them. Once used up they’re gone.

• Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

• Naturally replenished or renewed over a short period of time.

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What is the definition for the term:

Fossil Fuel

• Nonrenewable energy resources

• The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

• Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

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What is the definition for the term:

Environment

• The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

• Found in nature and humans need to survive

• All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

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What is the definition for the term:

Nonrenewable Natural Resource

• Naturally formed much slower than we use them. Once used up they’re gone.

• Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

• Naturally replenished or renewed over a short period of time.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition for the term:

Environmentalism

• Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

• All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

• Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

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What is the definition for the term:

Sustainable

• Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

• Found in nature and humans need to survive

• Nonrenewable energy resources

Lesson 1.2

The Nature of Science

The following slides are working with the vocabulary from section 2 of the chapter.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition for the term:

Controlled Study

• Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

• A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

• A study in which all variables are controlled except for the one variable being investigated.

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What is the definition of the term:

Dependent Variable

• A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

• A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

• Information gathered from a study.

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What is the definition for the term:

Independent Variable

• A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

• A study in which all variables are controlled except for the one variable being investigated.

• A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

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What is the definition for the term:

Data

• Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

• A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

• Information gathered from a study.

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What is the definition for the term:

Hypothesis

• A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

• Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

• Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

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What is the definition for the term:

Prediction

• Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

• Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

• Information gathered from a study.

Lesson 1.3

The Community of Science

The following slides are working with the vocabulary from section 3 of the chapter.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition for the term:

Environmental Ethics

• A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

• Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.

• A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

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What is the definition for the term:

Peer Review

• A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

• Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.

• study of behavior: good and bad, right and wrong

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What is the definition for the term:

Ethics

• A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

• A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

• study of behavior: good and bad, right and wrong

Multiple Choice

What is the definition for the term:

Theory

• A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

• A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

• Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.