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environmental science
The study of our planets, natural systems and how humans And the environment affects one another
environmentalism
a social movement
renewable natural recource
resources that can be replenished easily by a short period of time
non-renewable natural resource
finite resources that can’t be replenished easily by a short period of time
ecological footprint
measures how much of natures resources supports a lifestyle
Environmental Science is…
Interdisciplinary
Renewable resources
Can naturally be replenished over short periods and can become non-renewable if used faster than they are replenished
Nonrenewable resources
Naturally formed more slower than we use them
Sustainability
Resources are sustainable if it can be used at the same rate in the future
The agricultural revolutioN…
About 10,000 years ago; humans begin living in villages, had longer lifespan and more surviving children
Industrial revolution…
Began in the early 1700s in was drawn by fossil fuels in technological advances
Hypothesis
testable ideas
Prediction
A possible outcome before experimenting
Independent variable
The fact you change or control
Dependent variable
The factor you measure or observe
Constant
The factors that doesn’t change
Data
Facts and figures that can be analyzed
Scientist test predictions by gathering…
Evidence in the form of data from either an experiment or observational studies
Qualitative data
Appearance
Quantitative data
Numbers
theory
A broader explanation for wider range above observations
Law
A rule that describes the behavior of something in nature
ETHICS
Study of behavior
Bias
indication against an idea
after completing a Study scientist
Present their work, Write papers about their study, published in a journal in which they are peer reviewed
Theories and hypothesis must be
Testable
Culture
Ensemble of knowledge, beliefs, values, and learned ways of life shared by a group of people
Worldwide view
Perception of the world in and person’s place in it
anthropocentrism
Humans and human welfare most important
Biocentrism
All living things have value and some may be more important than others
Eco-centrism
Well, being of a species or community more important than that of an individual
Geosphere….
Made of all the rock at in below the surface we live in
Lithosphere…
The hard rock on and just below earths surface. Outermost layer of the geosphere
Biosphere…
Consists of all the planets, living or once living in nonliving parts of the environment in which they interact
Atmosphere…
Consists of all the layers of the gases surrounding our planet
Hydrosphere…
Encompasses all water on earths surface underground, and in the atmosphere
Crust
Thin, cool, rocky outer “skin”
Mantle
Very hot and mostly solid
Core
Outer core is molten metal inner core is solid metal