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Environmental Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Environmental Science | The study of how humans interact with the environment. |
| Environment | refers to everything that surronds us. |
| Natural resource | Any natural substance that living things use. |
| Nonrenewable Resources` | Resources that cannot be replaced. |
| Renewable Resources | Resources that are continually being replaced, even as they are being used. |
| Biosphere | The thin layer of life around the earth. |
| Developed countries | Highly industrialized countries, whose citizens have high average incomes. |
| Developing countries | Less industrialized, and their citizens have a much lower average income. |
| Consumption crisis | When people use up, waste, or pollute natural resources faster than those resources can be renewed, replaced, or cleaned up. |
| Population Crisis | The number of people grows so quickly that the region can't support them. |
| Sustainable world | A world in which human populations can continue to exist indefinetly with a high standard of living and health. |
| Pure Science | Seeks to answer questions about how the natural world works. |
| Applied Science | Uses the information provided by pure science to solve problems. |
| Ecology | The study of how living things interact with their physical and nonliving environment. |
| Experiment | A hypothesis that is tested under controlled conditions. |