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Earth Science - Environmental Science

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What is the field of study that examines interactions among human systems and those found in nature?

What term describes the sum of all conditions surrounding us that influence life?

What is any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy, information, or materials?

What is a particular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components?

What is the social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world?

What type of system allows matter to enter from or escape to the surroundings?

What type of system does not allow matter to enter or leave, often cycling within?

What is an example of an open system for energy and a closed system for matter?

What is a circular process in which a system's output serves as input to that same system?

What type of feedback loop causes a system to change further in the same direction?

What is a feedback loop in which a system responds to a change by returning to its original state?

Who is a person that participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment?

Who is a scientist that follows the scientific process to study the environment?

What field of study includes environmental science and subjects like policy, economics, literature, and ethics?

What is the movement of energy from one place or object to another, where energy can change forms?

What is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs?

What is a way to explore the natural world, draw inferences, and predict outcomes of certain events or changes?

What is the first step in the scientific method involving making observations and asking questions?

What is the second step in the scientific method involving forming a proposition or idea that can be tested?

What is the third step in the scientific method involving taking several repeated sets of measurements?

What is the fourth step in the scientific method involving accepting or rejecting hypotheses and generating conclusions?

What is the fifth step in the scientific method where scientists present papers and publish their findings?

What is the variable in an experiment that you change, which is not dependent on other factors?

What is the variable in an experiment that you measure, which depends on other factors?

What is a prediction that there is no difference between groups or conditions in an experiment?

What is the group in an experiment that is not exposed to the treatment and serves as a comparison?

What is the group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested?

What is a natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem?

What is the process of taking repeated measurements in an experiment?

What term describes the number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection?

What term describes how close a measurement is to the true value?

What is a measure of how close a series of measurements are to one another?

What is an estimate of how much a measured or calculated value differs from a true value?

What is the variable in an experiment that stays the same in all groups?

What is a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data?

What law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed forms?

What law states that when energy is transformed, the quantity remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes?

What is the highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing available supply?

What is the tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted if use is not regulated?

What is the outcome of an activity that affects a third party who had nothing to do with the activity?

What is the process of charging a fee for an externality?

What type of growth has a rate that becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size?

What is an indicator that describes the current state of an environmental system?

What are the five key environmental indicators?

What term describes the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

What is the variety of ecosystems within a given region?

What is the variety of species within an ecosystem?

What is the variety of genes within a given species?

What is the evolution of new species called?

What is the average rate at which species become extinct over the long term?

What are the three types of resources?

What type of resource never runs out, such as sunlight or wind?

What is a natural resource that can be replaced at a certain rate, like water, air, or soil?

What is a resource that cannot be replaced and has a fixed quantity, such as coal, oil, or natural gas?

What is the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply an area with resources and absorb wastes?

What is anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants?

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