Environmental Science Vocabulary Terms
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| Applied Science | Uses information provided by pure science to solve problems. Examples: engineering & medicine.
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| Biosphere | The layer around the Earth in which life occurs naturally to the deepest part of the ocean.
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| Consumption Crisis | Situation in which natural resources are being used up, wasted, or polluted faster than they can be replaced, renewed, or cleaned up.
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| Developed Countries | Highly industrialized countries within high incomes and high standards of living Example: USA.
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| Ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and with nonliving environments.
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| Environment | The surrounding of an organism that affect its life and development.
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| Environmental Science | The study with how humans interact with the environment.
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| Experiment | Activity designed to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
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| Hypothesis | A testable explanation for a specific problem or question, based on what is already learned; an educated guess
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| Natural Resource | Any natural substance that humans use, such as sunlight, soil, water, plants and animals.
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| Nonrenewable resource | Resources that can be all used up faster than they can be replenished naturally, such as coal, natural gas, and oil.
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| Population Crisis | Situation in which the number of people grows so quickly that a region cannot support them.
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| Pure Science | study or activity that seek answers to questions about how the world works; examples are biology and physics.
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| Renewable Resource | Abundant natural resources that are continually produced, such as trees and sunlight.
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| Sustainable World | World in which human populations can continue to exist indefinitely with a high standard of living and health.
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| Developing Countries | Less industrialized countries in which the average income and standard of living are low.
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