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What is a collection of systems including all living and nonliving things on Earth that sustain all life? |
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What is made up of interacting components that produce patterns of behavior over time, like a household? |
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What is an environment that is made of many natural systems? |
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What's an example of an ecosystem? |
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| What's another name for Earth's natural resources? |
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| What is the current epoch of Earth's history called? |
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| What philosophy is managing natural resources that allow for them to be used but not destroyed for future generations? |
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| What agency creates standards for businesses, governments, and citizens? |
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| The Global Reporting Initiative |
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| What are the 3 E's of the affects on the environment by human actions? |
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| Environment, economy, and equity |
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| What are long-term changes in temperature and precipitation called? |
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| Sustainable ecosystems display __________ __________, which is how well systems recover after disruption. |
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| Which of the 3 E's is concern for fairness to all groups of people? |
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| What's it called when awareness is raised that poor and marginalized communities receive more harms with resource extraction and other uses? |
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| What is testing ideas about the natural world through evidence gathering? |
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| Science requires using steps of the ________ _____. |
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| What are the 5 steps of the scientific method? |
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| Observe a problem, formulate a hypothesis, conduct experiments and gather data, evaluate data, and refine, alter, expand, or reject hypothesis |
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| What's a proposed explanation or answer to a scientific question? |
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| What do you do to test a hypothesis? |
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| What are claims that have not used the scientific method? |
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| What is a process for refining research design and ensuring that conclusions can be drawn from the evidence presented? |
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| What are pros and cons, or benefits and costs considered? |
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| What an estimate of total resources that are needed to support our current lifestyles? |
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| What is the ethical system that is based on duties and rights? |
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| What's the approach used that involves defining "what is right" by determining which actions would bring as much good or as little harm as possible? |
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| Which ethics extends to human concerns? |
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| Which ethics expands to all living things? |
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| Which ethics extend to living and nonliving aspects of the environment? |
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| What is a measure of how much people are willing and able to pay for a good? |
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| What is the measure of how much of the good is available? |
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| Increased efficiency leads to increased consumption. |
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| What system is when the government limits the overall emission of a certain pollutant, which are divided into allowances distributed among polluting facilities. A market is created where facilities not using their full allowance can sell the balance to facilities that exceed their allowance? |
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| What is the spiraling of overexploitation and resource degradation called? |
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| T/F Corporations receive compensation for positive externalities. |
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| False, positive externalities are good for the environment |
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| What are things that can not be produced profitably? |
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| What 2 issues do environmental policies address? |
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| Pollution regulation and natural resource management |
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| What is withholding your buying power from a company to motivate change? |
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| What is anything that takes up space, has mass, and usually can exist as solids, liquids, or gases? |
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What is a substance that cannot
be broken down into another substance, such as gold and calcium? |
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| What is the smallest unit of an element that still has all the characteristics of the element? |
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| Positive, negative, or no charge: Proton |
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| Positive, negative, or no charge: Electron |
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| Positive, negative, or no charge: Neutron |
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| What's it called when two or more atoms bond together? |
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| What's it called when atoms of two or more elements bond to each other? |
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| What law does it state that matter cannot be created or destroyed? |
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| The Law of Conservation of Mass |
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| How many elements account for nearly everything we interact with in our daily lives? |
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| What are the forces that hold the atoms in molecules together and differ among molecules? |
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| What forms when one atom donates electrons to another atom during bonding, resulting in equal and opposite charges? |
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| What forms when the electrons flow freely among metal atoms, allowing conduction of currents? |
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| What forms when pairs of atoms share electrons that shift between the atoms? |
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| What are compounds that yield positively charged hydrogen ions (H+) when dissolved in water? |
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| What compounds cause a reduction of hydrogen ions (H+) when dissolved in water? |
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| What type of reaction is combustion of fuels? |
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| Oxidation-reduction (redox) |
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| What reaction do smaller molecules join to create new and larger chain-like structures (polymers)? |
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| What is defined as the capacity to do work? |
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| What is the act of applying force to an object over some distance? |
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| What is the energy possessed by something in motion? |
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| What is the measurement of how vigorously the atoms in a material are moving and colliding with each other? |
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| What is the measure of disorder called? |
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| What type of producers are plants, algae, and some bacteria? |
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| Primary (make their own food) |
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| What are social scientists who study the characteristics and consequences of human population growth? |
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| What triggered the rapid population expansion of people? |
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| What are 2 historic population crashes in Europe? |
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| Great Famine and Black Death |
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| What is the maximum number of individuals of a species that a habitat can sustainably support? |
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| What is a term for the health problems associated with urban living? |
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| What's another name for an informal settlement? |
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| What is bright lights syndrome? |
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| Believing that cities are places of greater opportunity, excitement, and freedom |
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| What was created to separate residential areas from the pollution of heavy industry and it also separated people by class, race, ethnicity, and religion? |
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| What legally barred ethnic groups from purchasing or occupying properties in prime locations? |
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| Restrictive covenants/Redlining |
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| What is the development of guidelines to shape the future of an urban area? |
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| What is the need to operate at both local and regional scales? |
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| What are 2 things that influence walkability of a city? |
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| Mixed-use development and short city blocks with narrow streets that are in a grid pattern |
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