| A | B |
|---|
| sustainability | use of resource at a pace that can be replenished and foreseen into the future |
| renewable resource | wood |
| agricultural revolution | humans moved from hunter/gatherer to agricultural lifestyle |
| environment | includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact |
| ecological footprint | amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person |
| industrial revolution | humans moved from agricultural lifestyle to urban, manufacturing lifestyle |
| hunter-gather period | humans used fires to maintain prairie habitat |
| natural resource | sunlight, air, forests, and minerals are all example of this |
| independent variable | variable manipulated |
| data | recorded info from experiment |
| experiment | activity designed to test a hypothesis |
| dependent variable | placed on the y axis |
| tragedy of the commons | resources must be managed |
| ethics | study of right and wrong |
| models | tool used when direct observation cannot be made |
| qualitative | descriptive data |
| quantitative | numeric data |
| peer review | process of evaluating science with feedback from multiple sources |
| environmentalism | social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from undesirable changes brought by humans |
| controlled study | only tests one variable |
| theory | broader explanation of a phenomenon with extensive evidence and support |
| hypothesis | testable idea that attempts to explain a question |
| geothermal revoluation | always renewable |
| fossil fuels | non-renewable |
| timber | renewable if used sustainable |
