| A | B |
|---|
| experimental method | what we use to solve problems |
| agricultural revolution | drastically changed the food we eat and the habitats we live in |
| hypothesis | your best educated guess |
| theory | what we form when we solve something correctly |
| predictions | what we think will happen |
| disproved | what we do with many hypotheses |
| experiments | how we test hypothesis |
| cause and effect | this makes that happen |
| good experiments | what we need to do to solve our problems |
| variable | what's changing |
| experimental group | it's allowed to change |
| control group | always held constant |
| data | we collect it |
| graphs | how we display our data |
| trends | what we look for in our data |
| analyzing | what we do with data after its collected |
| conclusion | what you draw at the end of an experiment |
| repeat results | must be done in order to say an answer is correct |
| supporting evidence | what we look for to go along with a hypothesis |
| correlation | what makes 2 things related |
| curiosity | important trait in which we explore new things |
| skepticism | important trait which makes us doubtful |
| habits of mid | what we must have to be good scientists |
| openness to new ideas | what we must always show to move forward |
| intellectual honesty | have to have it so we can be trustworthy |
| imagination | always helps us look outside of the box |
| creativity | finding a new way to do something |
| patterns | what we are always looking for to help explain why things happen |
| statistics | math that explains everything |
| mean | its the average |
| average | the middle |
| distribution | explains how its all laid out |
| probability | how likely will it happen? |
| risk | likelyhood of a bad outcome |
| models | help us to see and understand |
| 3 dimensional | we can see and touch them |
| maps and charts | drawn to make things look to scale....location location location |
| graphical models | maps and charts would be one of these |
| conceptual models | an example is a flow chart |
| flow charts | shows if this happens then that happens |
| mathematical models | mainly equations |
| environmental science | looking at our impact on the world around us |
| natural resources | materials found on earth used for survivial |
| biology | area of environmental science that focuses on living things |
| earth science | area of environmental science focusing on rocks/minerals |
| observatons | the first step in the scientific method |
| chemistry | area of environmental science focusing on matter and its interactions |
| hunter gatherer | age of man where we lived off the land and found food |
| overhunting | biggest environmental problem of hunter gatherers |
| agriculture | domesticating and growing plants for widespread distribution |
| physics | area of environmental science |
| industrial revolution | large scale production of goods in factories |
| large scale production | what took place during the industrial revolution |
| resource depletion | on of our main environmental problems that results from using faster than we replace |
| renewable resource | can be replaced relatively quickly |
| nonrenewable resource | forms at a much slower rate that it is being used |
| risk assessment | describes what the likelihood of an adverse outcome and if it is worth pursuing |
| pollution | change in air, water, or soil that adversely affect the health and survival of humans |
| nonbiodegradable | can't be broken down by natural means |
| biodiversity | number and variety of species that live in an area |
| supply and demand | one of the economic principles that influence environmental science due to the availability of a resource and how much people want it |
| cost and benefit | compares the expense of something to how much it will help it will provide environmentally |
| ecological footprint | shws the productivearea of earth needed to support one person in a given area |
| sustainability | condition in which human needs aremet in such a way that the population can survive indefinitely |
| biodegradable | can be broken down by natural means |
