Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

Found in nature and humans need to survive

Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

Nonrenewable energy resources

Found in nature and humans need to survive

Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

Naturally formed much slower than we use them. Once used up they’re gone.

Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

Naturally replenished or renewed over a short period of time.

Nonrenewable energy resources

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us and our environment.

Found in nature and humans need to survive

All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

Naturally formed much slower than we use them. Once used up they’re gone.

Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

Naturally replenished or renewed over a short period of time.

Environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required

All the living and non-living things with which organisms interact.

Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world for undesirable changes.

Resources can continue to be used at the same rate for the foreseeable future.

Found in nature and humans need to survive

Nonrenewable energy resources

Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

A study in which all variables are controlled except for the one variable being investigated.

A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

Information gathered from a study.

A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

A study in which all variables are controlled except for the one variable being investigated.

A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

A variable the scientist manipulates in an experiment.

Information gathered from a study.

A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment.

Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

Specific statements about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

Information gathered from a study.

A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.

A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.

study of behavior: good and bad, right and wrong

A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

study of behavior: good and bad, right and wrong

A formal review of an unpublished report by other scientists who specialize in the topic.

A broad explanation that applies to a wide range of situations and observations and that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific community.

Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment.