Chapter 1

Question 1

Environment

Answer 1

All living and nonliving things

Question 2

Environmental science

Answer 2

Scientific study of how the natural world works, how our environment effects us, and how we affects our environment

Question 3

Natural resources

Answer 3

Substances and energy sources that we take from our environment and rely on to survive

Question 4

Renewable resources

Answer 4

Sunlight, wind, wave energy. Inexhaustible

Timber, water, animal, soil
Take time

Question 5

Nonrenewable resources

Answer 5

Consume too fast—- long time to renew

Minerals, fossil fuels

Question 6

Ecosystem services

Answer 6

Normal function of environment

CO2—— O2
Nutrients, pollinate, climates, recycle

Question 7

Agricultural revolution

Answer 7

10,000 years ago. Started growing crops

Question 8

Industrial revolution

Answer 8

mid-1700s. (1900)

Powered by fossil fuels

Increase medicine, food, pesticides, fertilizer

Question 9

Fossil fuels

Answer 9

Nonrenewable

Oil, coal, natural gas

Question 10

Ecological footprint

Answer 10

Wackernagel and Rees
Expresses the cumulative area of biologically productive land and water required to provide the resources a person or population consumes and needs for waste

Question 11

Overshoot

Answer 11

Practice of consuming more resources than are being replenished

64% faster

Question 12

Natural capital

Answer 12

Planets store of resources and ecosystem services

Question 13

Interdisciplinary

Answer 13

Environmental science —- using techniques, research from multiple disciplines

Question 14

Natural science

Answer 14

Examine natural world

Question 15

Social science

Answer 15

Address human interactions and institutions

Question 16

Environmental studies

Answer 16

Emphasize social sciences

Question 17

Environmentalism

Answer 17

Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human actions

Question 18

Science

Answer 18

Systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it

Question 19

Descriptive science

Answer 19

Basic information about organisms, materials, systems, processes not well known

Question 20

Hypothesis driven science

Answer 20

Scientific method

Question 21

Scientific method

Answer 21

Observation 
Questions
Hypothesis
Predictions
Test
Results

Question 22

Hypothesis

Answer 22

Statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a question

Question 23

Predictions

Answer 23

Specific statements that can be directly or unequivocally tested

Question 24

Independent variable

Answer 24

Manipulated

Question 25

Dependent variable

Answer 25

Depends on independent variable (result after change)

Question 26

Controlled experiment

Answer 26

All variables controlled except independent —- only one single change

Question 27

Control

Answer 27

Unmanipulated point of comparison

Question 28

Treatment

Answer 28

The one that got the independent variable

Question 29

Correlation

Answer 29

Statistical association amount variables

Question 30

Peer review

Answer 30

Submit to journal for comments, criticism

Question 31

Theory

Answer 31

Widely accepted, well tested of cause and effect relationships

Question 32

Paradigm

Answer 32

Dominant view

Question 33

Sustainability

Answer 33

Sustained resources (earth) for future

Question 34

Campus sustainability

Answer 34

College to reduce ecological footprint

Question 35

Environmental literacy

Answer 35

Basic understanding of environment and our relationship/impact