All living and nonliving things with in which an organism interacts
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Environmental Science
the study of how the natural world works, how the environment affects human, and affects the enviorment
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Environmentalism
a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world - and by extension people - from the harmful changes produced by human activities
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Natural Resources
any of the natural materials and energy source provided by nature that humans need to survive
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Renewable Natural Resources
a resource that is replenished, or renewed over a short period of time
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Nonrenewable Natural resource
a resource that is formed much more slowly than it is used
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Sustainable
able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply
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Fossil Fuel
a carbon - containing fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things
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Ecological Footprint
the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required (1) to provide the raw materials the individual or population consumes and (2) to dispose of or recycle the waste in individual or population produces
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hypothesis
a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question
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prediction
a statement of what a scientific expects to observe if a hypothesis is true
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independent vaiable
the variable that is manipulated, or changed, in an experiment
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dependent variable
the variable that changes in response to the conditions set in an experiment
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controlled study
a study in which only one factor is manipulated, or damaged
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Data
information collected using scientific methods
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peer review
the formal process of submitting research for examination by the scientific community
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theory
a well - tested explanation of observations and experimental findings
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Ethics
the branch of philosophy that involves the study of good and bad, and of right and wrong
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Enviromental Ethics
the application of ethics standards to relationships between humans and their environment
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