Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
ENVSTD Unit 1 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 3Es | (environment, economy, and equity) What human action effects |
| Anthropocene | A new current Epoch of Earth’s current history, Which is marked by conspicuous human effects on the planet |
| Bias | an unreasonable weighing, inclination, or prejudice that leads to misunderstanding |
| climate change | Long-term change in climate conditions such as temperature, humidity, and weather. |
| communication strategy | verbal or non-verbal ways of connecting with others to influence or inform |
| controlled experiment | a test in which researchers intentionally manipulate some specific aspect of a system to see how the change affects the outcome. |
| disinformation | Deliberately misleading, incorrect, or false information |
| ecological resilience | The ability of an ecosystem to recover from damage suffered from a disturbance and returned to its pre-disturbed state. |
| ecological resistance | the ability of an environment to remain unchanged in the face of a disturbance. |
| ecosystem | a community of life and the physical environment with which it reacts |
| ecosystem services | a concept that assigns value to human benefits derived from naturally functioning ecosystems. |
| emergent property | an outcome deriving from the function of a system as a whole |
| environment | a multitude of living, and non-living matter which sustains life, including our own. |
| environmental justice | The principle that no one should bare more environmental burdens, or enjoy more environmental benefits than others. |
| footprint analysis | a method to understand the magnitude of the impact of choices and actions that individuals make, both over time, and collectively. |
| fraud | an attempt to deceive people by communicating findings that are simply false. |
| hypothesis | a proposed explanation to a phenomenon or a potential answer to a scientific question. |
| incentive | a positive or negative signal that pulls us towards or pushes us away from a certain choice or behavior. |
| misinformation | False or incorrect information that can be spread intentionally or unintentionally. |
| model | a simplified concept, or representation of a complex process that is designed to help understand interactions among different factors. |
| peer review | a process for refining research design and ensuring that conclusions can indeed be drawn from the evidence by subjecting work to assessment by experts in the field of study in question. |
| pseudoscience | claims that are not the result of scientific inquiry or are derived from a process that is not open to scientific scrutiny. |
| science | our way of asking and answering questions and testing ideas about the natural world by using evidence gathered from the natural world. |
| scientific method | a formal process of inquiry designed to test problems and ideas. |
| sustainability | the management of natural resources in ways that do not diminish or degrade earth’s ability to provide them in the future |
| sustainable development | development that meets the needs of the present without hindering the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. |
| system | a collection of components interacting with each other to produce outcomes that each component could not achieve in its own. |
| trade-offs | the pros cons, benefits, and costs of an alternative course of action |
| values | reflections of our understandings of how we want things to be; what we desire, aim for, or demand. |
Created by:
Corpsmancorbin
Popular Ecology sets