NRES 100 Exam 1 Complete Study Guide Exam 2024.

NRES 100 Exam 1 Complete Study Guide Exam 2024. sustainable - correct answer - a resource is used in a way that it continues to be available and the ecosystem retains its functions and structure. - ensuring that future generations have equal opportunities to access the resources that our planet offers - types of developments that are economically viable, do not harm the environment, and are socially just carrying capacity - correct answer the maximum number of individuals of a species that can be sustained by an environment (without decreasing the capacity of the environment to sustain that same amount in the future) theory - correct answer a guess, hypothesis, prediction, notion, or belief hypothesis - correct answer - type of statement used when scientists wish to test an inference - can be disproved fact - correct answer observation about a particular thing agreed by all controlled experiment - correct answer - an exact duplicate of an experiment is compared back to a standard or control - one variable is altered - this may cause a change in another variable independent variable - correct answer - a variable that is manipulated by the investigator - in an observational study, the variable that is believed by the investigator to affect an outcome, or dependent, variable dependent variable - correct answer - a variable taken as the outcome of one or more other variables - a variable that changes in response to changes in an independent variable