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Miles APES
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Envirorment | The area or conditions where a living thing is surrounded by. |
| Environmental Science | The field of study that covers psychical and earth sciences involving the environment. |
| Ecosystem | The geographic area where organisms and plants live and develop their lives. |
| Biotic | A living thin gin an ecosystem. |
| Abiotic | A nonliving thing in an ecosystem. |
| Environmentalist | Someone who studies the environment and the problems within it. |
| Ecosystem Service | Anything that is a positive addition to wildlife and ecosystems. |
| Economic Service | Things that provide food, fuel, and fiber. |
| Biodiversity | The variety of all living things. |
| Genetic Diversity | All the different traits that are inherited within different species. |
| Species | A group of organisms that reproduce naturally. |
| Species Diversity | The number of different species within one area. |
| Speciation | When parts of the species group separates from one another to form new traits and characteristics on its own. |
| Greenhouse gases | Gases that are in the earths atmosphere that trap heat. |
| Anthropogenic | Environmental change caused by people. |
| Sustainability | Keeping the needs of the present without affecting any future needs. |
| Biophilia | The humans inherited psychological tendency to be attracted to other forms of life and the natural environment. |
| Ecological footprint | The method that determines how dependent humans can be with natural resources. |
| Hypothesis | A theory that can be tested and proven by data or research. |
| Control group | Scientific experiment where groups are separated so the independent variable cannot influence results, |
| Sample size | Measures the number of individual samples measured. |
| Replication (during experimentation) | Recreating an experiment that is close to the orignal. |
| Theory | The explanation of an aspect proven with hypotheses and facts. |
| Surface tension | The property of the surface that liquid can resist an external force. |
| Capillary Action | The movement of water within spaces due to forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension, |
| Acid | The substance that donates protons during chemical reactions. |
| Base | A substance that can neutralize acids by reacting with hydrogen ions, |
| pH | The measure of how acidic a water or base is. |
| Chemical Reaction | A process where one or more substances and converted into products. |
| Law of conservation of matter | The amount of matter will always stay the same no matter if it changes form. |
| Carbohydrate | Sugar molecules. |
| Protein | Large complex molecules that help with structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissue and organs. |
| Lipid | Fat |
| Nucleic Acid | Chemical compounds that are the primary information carriers in molecules. |
| DNA | The double stranded molecule that carries all the genic information of the organism. |
| Renewable energy | Energy that can be restored or reused. |
| Nonrenewable energy | Energy that comes from sources that cannot be reused and will run out. |
| Chemical energy | The energy stored in chemical compounds bonds, |
| First law of thermodynamics | Energy cannot be formed or destroyed but can be altered. |
| Second law of thermodynamics | The thermal energy of an isolated system will never decrease overtime. |
| RNA | Transcribes and delivers genetic instructions to the cytoplasm from the nucleus. |
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