APES Friedland Ch 1
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djohnsoncphs on August 21, 2011
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APES, APES Elmore, Mr. Maloney's AP Environmental Science, Mastbaum APES 2013, AP Environmental Science Study Group, SDAPES
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 environment | The sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life |
| environmental science | The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature |
| system | Any set of interacting components that infludence one another by exchanging energy or materials |
| ecosystem | a partiular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components |
| biotic | living |
| abiotic | nonliving |
| environmentalist | A person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education |
| environmental studies | The field of study that includes environmental science, environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics among others |
| ecosystem services | The process by which natural environments provide life-supporting resources |
| environmental indicators | Something that describes the current state of an environmental system |
| sustainability | Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources |
| biodiversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment |
| species | A group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in its morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties |
| speciation | The evolution of a new species |
| background extinction rate | The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term |
| greenhouse gases | a gas in Earth's atmosphere that traps heat near the surface |
| anthropogenic | Derived from human activities |
| development | Improvement in human well-being through economic advancement |
| sustainable development | Development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of guture generation |
| biophilia | An appreciaton of life |
| ecological footprint | A measure of how much an individual consumes, expressed in area of land |
| scientific method | An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences for it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes |
| hypothesis | A testable theory or supposition about how something works |
| null hypothesis | A statement or idea that can be falsified, or proven wrong |
| replication | The data collection procedure of taking repeated measurements |
| sample size | The number of times a measurement is replicated in the data collection process |
| accuracy | How close a measured value is to the actual or true value |
| precision | How close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another |
| uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value |
| inductive reasoning | The process of making general statements from specific fats or examples |
| deductive reasoning | The process of applying a general satement to specific facts or situations |
| critical thinking | The process of questioning the soure of information, considering the methods used to obtain the information, and drawing conclusions; essential to all scientific endevors |
| theory | A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance |
| control group | A set that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study |
| natural experiment | A natural event that acts an an experimental treatment in an ecosystem |
| environmental justice | A social movement and field of study that focuses on equal enforcement of environmental laws and eliminating disparities in the exposure of environmental harm to different ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society |
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