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| scientist group together similar observations and inferences to make the study of objects and events in the environment more meaningful or easier to understand |
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| many changes in the environment occur in some orderly fashion in which the events constantly repeat |
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the concentration of matter in an object
mass= mass over volume |
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| environmental equilibrium resulting from opposing forces or actions balancing out |
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| an interpretation of an observation |
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| is a human made device that extends the senses beyond there normal limits, thus enabling them to make observations that would otherwise be impossible or highly inaccurate |
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| the boundary between regions with different properties |
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| the amount of matter in an object |
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| a means of expressing an observation with greater accuracy or precision |
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| a non-human related object, process, or situation that has the possibility of causing loss of life, personal injury, or loss of property |
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| the materials and energy sources found in the environment that humans use in there daily lives |
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| the perception of some aspect of the environment by one or more human senses |
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| percent deviation/ percent error |
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when the amount of error is expressed as a percentage
difference from accepted value
over
accepted value
times
100% |
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| the concentration of any substance or form of energy reaches a proportion that adversely affects people, their property, or plant or animal life |
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| is a type of inference about the conditions and behavior of the environment in the future |
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| how much a measurable aspect of the environment called a field, is altered over a given time - years - hours - or seconds |
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| is all matter, time, energy, and space |
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| the amount of space that an object occupies |
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