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| Any living component of the environment |
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| Any nonliving component of the environment |
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| The variable that is affected by the manipulation of the independent variable |
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| The variable that the scientist manipulates in a manipulative experiment |
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| The sum total of our surroundings. Including all biotic and abiotic things. |
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| A natural resource that is in limited supply and is formed much more slowly than we use it (ore minerals and crude oils) |
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| A natural resource that is virtually unlimited (trees, food crops, water and soil) |
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| A formalized method for testing ideas with observations that involves several assumptions and a more less consistent series of interrelated steps. |
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| a guiding principle of environmental science that requires us to live in such a way as to maintain Earth's systems and its natural resourses for the foreseeable future |
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