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| The environment is everything around us. It includes all of the living and nonliving things with which we interact. And it includes a complex web of relationships that connect us with one another and with the world we live in |
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| an interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things. |
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| a group of organisms with distinctive traits and, for sexually reproducing organisms, can mate and produce fertile offspring. |
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| a set of organisms interacting with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter and energy within a defined area or volume |
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| the ability of the Earth's various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely. |
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| the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use. |
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| or, relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations |
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| not derived from living organisms |
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| a person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment |
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| the study of human interaction with the environment |
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| resources supplied by nature |
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| factors that tell us about the environment |
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| the variety of life in the world or a particular habitat |
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| the formulation of new and distinct species through evolution |
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| background extinction rate |
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| the standard rate of extinction of nature before human involvement |
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| gasses in the atmosphere that absorb infrared radition |
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| originating in human activity |
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| an instinctive bond between human beings and other living things |
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| method of procedure in science: observation, measurement, experiment, formulation of hypothesis, testing of hypothesis, reforming of hypothesis |
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| method of procedure in science: observation, measurement, experiment, formulation of hypothesis, testing of hypothesis, reforming of hypothesis |
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| a proposed explanation made based on limited evidence |
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| replicating an experiment accurately |
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| the number of samples in an experiment usually denoted as "n" |
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| the degree to which a result is correct |
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| something that is uncertain |
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| making an educated guess based on evidence |
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| using known facts to draw a conclusion |
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| reflective judgement on what to do |
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| a system of ideas intended to explain something |
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| a group of outside subjects who are compared to the subjects of an experiment, the norm |
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| experiment where the experimenter cannot control any variable |
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| the fair treatment of all people with respect to the enforcement of environmental laws |
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| the hypothesis that nothing will happen |
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| the improvement of living standards by economic growth |
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| environmentally sustainable economic development |
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| using political and economic systems to discourage environmentally harmful and unsustainable forms of economic growth that degrade natural capital, and to encourage environmentally beneficial and sustainable forms of economic development that help sustain natural capital |
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