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Environmental Science - Chapter 1
Vocabulary Assignment
1 Environmental science
2 The Scientific Method
3 Quantitative reasoning
4 Uncertainty
Critical and analysis
5
thinking
6 Throughput
7 Ecosystem services
8 Provisioning services
9 Regulating services
10 Tragedy of the commons
11 Sutainability
12 Subtainable development
The systematic, scientific study of our
environmentas well as our role in it.
A systematic, precise, objective study of a problem.
Generally, this requires observation, hypothesis
development and testing, data gathering, and
interpretation.
A act of understanding how to compare numbers
and interpret graphs, to perceive what they show
about problem matters.
A stituiation which is not known, or some thing is
not known or certain.
A skill combinated by critical thinking and analysis
thinking, you have to practice much.
The flow of energy and/or matter into
and out of a system
Processes or materials, such
as clean water, energy, climate regulation, and
nutrient cycling, provided by ecosystems
Process or materials or ennery outputs from
ecosystems.
It include maintenance of temperatures suitable for
life by the earths atmosphere and carbon capture by
green plants, which maintains a stable atmospheric
composition.
It mention about that population growth lead
inevitablely to overuse and then destruction of
common resources such as shared pastures,
unregulated fisheries, fresh water, land and clean
air.
It is a search for ecological stability and human
progress that can last over the long term.
It is a progress in human well-being that we can
extend or prolong over many generations, rather
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than just a few years without degrading the

environment or compromissing the ability of future
generations to met their own need
Local people who have lived in a particular place
13 Indigenous people
for a long time.
It is a process for producing knowledge based on
14 Science
observations.
Making an observation or obtaining a particular
15 Reproducibility
result consistently.
16 Replication Repeating studies or processes.
“Top down” reasoning in which we start with a
17 Deductive reasoning general principle and derive a testable prediction
about a specific case
A reasoning from many observations to produce a
18 Inductive reasoning
general rule
A conditional explanation that can be verified or
19 Hypothesis
falsified by observation or experimentation.
An explanation or idea accepted by a substantial
20 Scientific theory
number of scientists.
21 Probability It is a measure of how likely something is occur.
Observation of natural events to deduce causal
22 Natural experiment
relationships.
It is a experiment in which conditions are
23 Mainpulative experiments deliberately altered and all other variabkes are help
constant
Comparisons made between two populations that
24 Controlled study are identical (as far as possible) in every factor
except the one being studied
A design in which researchers dont know which
25 Blind experiments subjects were given experimental treatment until
after the data has been garthered and analyzed.
It is an accurate representation of the distribution of
26 Histogram
the numerical data.
It is a relation between 2 variable when this variable
27 Neagtive relationship
increases, the other will be decrease.
It is a experiment, in which neither the subject (who
28 Double blind experiments
receives a drug or a placebo) nor the researcher
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knows who is in the treatment group and who is in

the control group.
It is known as response variable which is affected
29 Dependent variables
by the independent variable.
It is a variable whose varian does not depend on
30 Independent variables
that of another.
It is a variables that is not really dependent, can be
31 Explanatory variables affected by the same environmental conditions as
the dependent variables.
32 Scientific consensus A general agreement among informed scholars.
It is a major change in the concept and practices of
33 Paradigm shifts
how something work or accomplished.
It is a phrase often used by corporate public
relations and government agency spokesman to
34 Sound scienc
describe the science research used to justify a claim
or a position.
An ability to evaluate information
35 Critical thinking and opinions in a systematic, purposeful, efficient
manner.
A way of systematic analysis
36 Ananlytical thinking that asks, “How can I break this problem down
into its constituent parts?”
A thoughful that asks “how might I approach this
37 Creative thinking
problem in new and invetive ways?”
A thoughfull that evaluates whether the structure of
38 Logical thinking
your argument makes sense.
A thoughful, comtemplative analysis ask “ what
39 Reflective thinking
does it all mean?”
A philosophy that resources should be used for the
40 Utilitarian conservation great good for the great number for the longest
time.
A philosophy emphasize the fundamental right of
41 Preservation other organisms and nnature as a whole to exist and
to pursue their own interest.
The person who was known as John of the
42 John Muir mountain and the father of national park was an
influencial american naturist, environmental
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philosopher and early advocate for the preservation

of wildness in American.
The person was the leader of the populist
progressive movement, moved foresr management
43 Teddey Roosevelt
out of the corruption-filled Interior Deparment into
Department of Agricuture.
The first american professional forester who is
regarded as the father of american con servation
44 Gifford Pinchot
because of his great and unrelenting concern for the
protection of the American forests.
A pioneering wildlife ecologist, a founder of the
Wilderness Society, a conservationist who are
45 Aldo Leopold
deeply concerned about our relationship with the
nature.
The extension of environmental concerns to include
46 Modern environmentalism
both natural resources and environmental pollution.
Founder of the Green Belt movement, she was the
47 Dr. Wangari Maathai first person who received a Nobel prize for
environmental actions.
The extension of modern environmental concerns to
48 Global environmentalism
global issues.