Vocab. Chapter 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| applied science | uses information provided by pure science to solve problems.
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| biosphere | the thin layer of life around the Earth.
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| consumption crisis | when people use up, waste, or pollute natural resources faster than those resources can be renewed, replaced, or cleaned up.
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| developed countries | the highly industrialized countries whose citizens have high average incomes
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| developing countries | are less industrialized and their citizens have a much lower average income.
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| ecology | one of the most important foundations of environmental science.
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| environment | everything that surrounds us
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| environmental science | the study of how humans interact with the environment.
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| experiment | a hypothesis is tested under controlled conditions.
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| hypothesis | a testable explanation for an observation.
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| natural resource | any natural substance that living things use such as, sunlight, air, water, soil, minerals, plants, animals, forests, and fossil fuels.
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| nonrenewable resources | resources that can not be replaced such as copper
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| population crisis | when some regions on Earth the human populations are growing too quickly for the regions to support.
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| pure science | seeks to answer questions about how the natural world works.
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| renewable resources | resources that are continually being replaced even as they are being used. Ex: solar energy and sunlight
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| sustainable world | a world in which human populations can continue to exist indefinitely with high standards of living and health.
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