Env Unit 1 Notes Review

Science does not deal with

• the supernatural,

• Supported ideas that are proven.

• Evidence from measurements and observations,

• rules that do not change.

The environment includes all ___________ and ___________ things with which organisms interact.

• living and nonliving

• fake and real

• wild and domestic

• human and nonhuman

Environmental Science: Objective, unbiased pursuit of knowledge about the workings of the environment and our ____________________ with it

• understanding

• interactions

• lives

• deaths

Environmentalism: ____________________ movement dedicated to protecting the natural world

• Human

• Anti

• World

• Social

Study of behavior (good and bad, right and wrong), moral principles, and values

• Ethics

• Culture

• Worldview

• Human Behavior

All living things have value; some may be more important than others

• Anthropocentrism

• Biocentrism

• Ecocentrism

• Worldview

what you decide or conclude about an observation.

• PREDICTION

• OBSERVATION

• INFERENCE

• QUESTION

a logical, educated guess about a future event.

• PREDICTION

• OBSERVATION

• INFERENCE

• QUESTION

Data can be counted or measured in some way

• Qualitative Data

• Measured Data

• Quantitative Data

• Counted Data

Data that is described and cannot be counted

• Qualitative Data

• Described Data

• Quantitative Data

• Non-Counted Data