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EnviroCh2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Science | a process for producing knowledge methodically and logically |
| reproducibility | making an observation or obtaining a particular result more than once |
| replication | repeating studies or tests |
| significant number | a level of detail that you actually know |
| deductive reasoning | deriving testable predictions about specific cases form general principles |
| inductive reasoning | inferring general principles from specific examples |
| hypothesis | a provisional explanation that can be tested scientifically |
| scientific theory | an explanation that has been supported by a large number of tests, and a majority of experts have reached a general consensus that it is a reliable description/ explanation |
| natural experiment | a study that involves observation of events that have already happened |
| manipulative experiments | studies in which conditoins are deliberately altered, and all other variables are held constant |
| controlled study | comparisons are made between experimental and control populations that are identical in every factor except the one variable being studied |
| blind experiments | researcher doesn't know which group is treated until after the data have been analyzed |
| double-blind experiments | neither the subject nor the researcher knows who is in the treatment group and who is in the control group (medical studies) |
| dependent variable | affected by the independent variables |
| independent variables | hope is tht they will explain differences in the dependent variable by their manipulation |
| models | a simple representation of something |
| systems | networks of interactions among many interdependent factors |
| open systems | those that receive inputs from their surroundings and produce outputs that leave the system |
| positive feedback | self-perpetuating process. plant grows leaves, more leaves= more energy it can capture for producing more leaves |
| negative feedback | supresses change; grass grows rapidly, mor leaves that can be supported by soil moisture, insufficient moisture= plant dies |
| equilibrium | tendency to remain more or less stable and unchanging |
| disturbances | events that can destabilize or change a system |
| dynamic equilibrium | tendency for a system to change and then return to normal |
| resilience | ability to recover from disturbance |
| state shift | conditions do not return to normal |
| emergent properties | characteristics of whole, founctioning systemst hat are quantitatively or qualitatively greater than the sum of the systems' parts |
| scientific consensus | general agreement among informed scholars |
| paradigm shifts | occur when a majority of scientists accept that the old explanation no longer explains new observations very well |
| ecofeminism | a plualistic, nonhierarchical, relationship-oriented philosophy that suggests how humans could reconceive themselves and their relationships to nature in nondominating ways as an alternative to patriarchal systems of domination |
| environmental justice | a recognition that access to a clean, healthy environmet is a fundamental right of all human beings |
| environmental racism | decisions that restrict certain people or groups of people to polluted or degraded environments on the basis of race |
| ethics | a branch of philosophy concerned with right and wrong |
| inherent value | ethical values or rights that exist as an intrinsic or essential characteristic of a particular thing or class of things simply by the fact of their existence |
| instrumental value | value or worth of objects that satisfy the needs and wants of moral agents |
| LULU's | Locally Unwanted Land Uses such as toxic waste dumps, incinerators, smelters, airports, freeways, and other sources of environmental, economic, orsocial degradation |
| Moral extensionism | expansion of our understanding of inherent value or rights to persons, organisms, or things that might not be considered worthy of value or rights under some ethical philosophies |
| scientific consensus | a general agreement among informed scholars |
| statistics | numbers that let you evaluate and compare things |
| stewardship | a philosophy that holds that humans hve a unique responsibility to manage, care for, and improve nature |
| toxic colonialism | shipping toxic wastes to a weaker or poorer nation |
| worldview | sets of basic beliefs, images, and understandings that shape how we see the world around us |
| environment | the surroundings of an organism or community |
| Environmental science | the study of the environment, and our impact on the environment |
| Utilitarian conservation | the period of environmental activism in which the well being of the environment was not as much of a concern as conserving the environment because it provides homes and jobs for people |
| biocentric conservation | the period of environmental activism centering around the actual well being of the environment, in which the belief was that organisms have a basic right to exist and not be controlled by humans and their interests |
| environmentalism | the advocation for the protection of the environment |
| global environmentalism | taking part in the movement to solve environmental problems on not just a national, but a global scale |
| ecological footprint | a measurement of the demand that an individual or society is placing on the environment |
| extreme poverty | those who are in a situation of living on less than $1 a day |
| sustainable development | cost efficient solutions for the environmental problems of our society that not only benefit us in the shot-term, but cause no negative effects for the future of our world |
| indigenous | a species that was the first to reside in a place, or appears there naturally |
| independent variable | a variable that does not change based on another |
| dependent variable | the variable that is manipulated to observe its change |
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