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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Environment | the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates |
| environmental science | an field that integrates areas of life, physical and earth science to study and address problems facing the environment and to implement science-based solutions |
| ecosystem | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
| biotic | relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations |
| abiotic | physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms |
| 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 in a particular habitat or ecosystem |
| genetic diversity | the range of different inherited traits within a species |
| species | a kind or sort |
| species diversity | the number of different species present in an ecosystem and relative abundance of each of those species |
| Speciation | the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution |
| greenhouse | a glass building in which plants are grown that need protection from cold weather |
| anthropogenic | (chiefly of pollution or environmental change) originating in human activity |
| sustainability | the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level |
| biophillia | 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, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources |
| hyphothesis | a tentative, testable explanation for a phenomenon in the natural world |
| control group | a group in the experiment which a variable is not being tested subject that does not receive any treatment |
| sample size | the number of units in a population to be studied |
| replication | repeating study's procedure and observing whether the prior finding recurs |
| Theory | a careful thought out explanation for observations of natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method |
| Surface tension | the property of the surface liquid that allows it to resist an external force, due to the cohesive nature of its molecules |
| Capillary Action | the movement of a liqiud |
| Acid | any hydrogen-containging substance that is capable of donating a proton to another substance |
| Base | a molecule or ion able to accept a hydrogen ion from an acid |
| pH | quantitive measure of the acidity or basicity of aqeupus or other liquids |
| Chemical reaction | a process in which one or more substances, the reactants, are convertied to one or more different substances, the products |
| Law of conservation of matter | the amount of matter stays the same, even when matter changes form |
| Carbohydrate | an organic compound such as sugar or starch, and is used to store energy |
| Protein large | complex molecules that play many important roles in the body |
| Lipid | compounds that perform a variety of functions in your body |
| Nucleic acid | naturally occurring chemical compound that is capable of being broken down to yield phosphoric acid, and organic |
| DNA/RNA | deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid, they carry genetic information which is read in cells to make the RNA and DNA living thing's function |
| Renewable Energy | energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished |
| Nonrenewable Energy | energy comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetimes |
| Chemical energy | energy stored in the bonds of chemical compounds, like atoms and molecules |
| First law of thermodynamics | energy cannot be created or destroyed: it can only be converted from one form to another |
| Second law of thermodynamics | for a spontaneous process, the entropy of the universe increases |
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