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Environment The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
Environmental science The study of living organisms and how they interact with our environment.
Ecosystem A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Biotic Living or once living components of a community.
Abiotic Non living components of a community.
Environmentalist A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
Ecosystem service Any positive benefit that wildlife or ecosystems provide to people.
Economic service Government-provided services and resources meant to help struggling individuals connect with support that can help them meet their needs.
Biodiversity The variety of life in the world, or any particular habitat or ecosystem
Genetic Diversity The range of different inherited traits within a species.
Species A group of living organisms, consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Species diversity The number and relative abundance of species found in a given biological organization.
Speciation The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution.
Greenhouse gases Gases in the earth’s atmosphere that traps heat.
Anthropogenic Any changes in nature that is caused by people.
Sustainability The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Biophilia A hypothetical human tendency to interact or be closely associated with other forms of life in nature.
Ecological footprint The impact of a person or community on the environment.
Hypothesis A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its true.
Control group A group where the independent variable is “controlled” or held constant.
Sample size The number of participants or observations included in a study.
Replication (during experimentation) Repeating an experiment or part of it under the same or similar conditions.
Theory An idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action.
Surface tension The property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force, due to the cohesive nature of its molecules.
Capillary action The ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces, without the help of an outside force like gravity.
Acid A molecule or other entity that can donate a proton or accept an electron pair in reactions.
Base A substance that can neutralize the acid by reacting with hydrogen ions.
pH A scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
Chemical reaction A process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction.
Law of conservation of matter States that in a chemical reaction mass is neither created nor destroyed.
Carbohydrate Sugar molecules.
Protein Large molecules, composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, and are an essential part of all the living organisms.
Lipid Fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents.
Nucleic acid A complex organic substance present in living cells, especially DNA and RNA, which consist of many nucleotides link in a long chain.
DNA/RNA DNA is the genetic information inside the body cells that helps make people who they are. RNA acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis proteins .
Renewable energy Energy from a source that is not depleted when used such as wind or solar power.
Nonrenewable energy Natural resource that cannot be readily replaced by natural mean at a pace, quick enough to keep up with consumption.
Chemical energy Energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds like atoms and molecules.
First law of thermodynamics States that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be converted from one form to another.
Second law of thermodynamics States there any spontaneously occurring process will always lead to an escalation in the entropy of the universe.
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