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| information technology | the technical means that humans create to store and transmit information |
| inquiry | a systematic process for using knowledge and skills to acquire and apply new knowledge |
| instructional technology | any mechanical aid (inlcuding computer technology) used to assist in or enhance the process of teaching and learning |
| integrated pest management | a variety of pest control methods that include repairs, traps, bait, poison, etc. to eliminate pests |
| law | summarizing statement of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true |
| lentic | relating to or living in still water |
| lotic | relating to or living in actively moving water |
| manufacturing technology | the ways taht humans produce goods and products |
| mitigation | the policy of constructing or creating man-made habitats, such as wetlands, to replace those lost to development |
| mitosis | the sequential differentiation and segregation of replicated chromosomes in a cell's nucleus that precedes complete cell division |
| model | a description, analogy or a representation of something that helps us understand it better (a physical model, a conceptual model, a mathematical mode |
| niche (ecological) | the role played by an organism in an ecosystem; its food preferences, requirements for shelter, special behaviors and the timing of its activities (nocturnal, diurnal), interaction with other organisms and its habitat |
| nonpoint source pollution | contamination that originates from many locations that all discharge into a location (a lake, stream, land area) |
| nonrenewable resources | substances (oil, gas, coal, copper, gold) that, once used, cannot be replaced in this geological age |
| nova | a variable star that suddenly increases in brightness to several times its normal magnitude and returns to its original appearance in a few weeks to several months or years |
| patterns | repeated processes that are exhibited in a wide variety of ways; identifiable recurrences of the element and/or the form |
| pest | a label applied to an organism when it is in competition with humans for some resource |
| physical technology | the ways that humans construct, manufacture and transport prouducts |
| point source pollution | pollutants discharged from a single identifieable location (pipes, ditches, channels, sewers, tunnels, containers of various types) |
| radioactive isotope | an atom that gives off nuclear radiation and has the same number of protons (atomic number) as another atom but a different number of neutrons |
