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environment correct answers all the living and nonliving things around us environmental science correct answers How the natural world works How the environment affects humans and vice versa natural resources correct answers substances and energy sources needed for survival i.e. solar energ...

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environment correct answers all the living and nonliving things around us

environmental science correct answers How the natural world works
How the environment affects humans and vice versa

natural resources correct answers substances and energy sources needed for survival
i.e. solar energy, wind energy, wave energy, geothermal energy

renewable natural resources correct answers replenished over short periods
i.e. fresh water, forest products, biodiversity, soils

nonrenewable natural resources correct answers unavailable after depletion (oil, coal, minerals,
minerals)

natural sciences correct answers examine the natural world

social sciences correct answers examine human interactions and institutions

environmentalism correct answers a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world
for undesirable changes due to human actions

science correct answers a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our
understanding of it

observational science correct answers info is gathered about organisms, systems, processes, etc.

hypothesis driven science correct answers Targeted, structured research
Experiments test hypotheses using the scientific method

experiment correct answers tests the validity of a prediction or hypothesis

independent variable correct answers manipulated variable

dependent variable correct answers depends on the independent variable

controlled experiment correct answers control (an unmanipulated point of comparison)
treatment (manipulated point of comparison)

peer review correct answers other scientists judge the work

conferences correct answers scientists interact with others

grants and funding correct answers from private or government sources, intense competition

, Repeatability correct answers others try to reproduce the results

ethics correct answers the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a
person or group

relativists correct answers ethics varies with social context

universalists correct answers notions of right or wrong remain the same across cultures and
situations

ethical standards correct answers help us determine good behavior from bad behavior; what we
ought to do

environmental ethics correct answers the application of ethical standards to relationships
between humans and their environment

three ethical perspectives correct answers anthropocentrism: only humans have rights
biocentrism: certain living things have value
ecocentrism: whole ecological systems have value

sustainability correct answers living within our planet's means

lithosphere correct answers rock and sediment

atmosphere correct answers the air that surrounds the earth

hydrosphere correct answers All the water on earth

biosphere correct answers the planets living organisms plus the abiotic parts they interact with

feedback loop correct answers a circular process in which a system's output serves as input to
that same system

negative feedback loop correct answers Stabilizes a system: output that results when the system
moves in one direction acts as an input that moves the system in the other direction

positive feedback loop correct answers Drives a system further toward an extreme instead of
stabilizing it

matter correct answers all material in the universe that has mass and occupies space

law of conservation of matter correct answers Matter is not created nor destroyed in any
chemical or physical change

organic compunds correct answers carbon-based molecules

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