Environmental Science Ch.1 Vocab.

Variable that changes in response to experimental conditions

Statement a scientist expects to observe if hypothesis is true

Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply

Accepted explanation of observations/experimental findings

Study in which only one factor is manipulated

Environmental impact in amount of land/water consumed and how its disposed/recycled

Resource replenished/renewed over short periods of time

Study of how the natural world works, how the environment affects humans, and vice versa

Social movement protecting natural world from harmful changes produced by humans

All of the living and non-living things organisms interact with

Manipulated variable in an experiment

Process of submitting research for analysis by scientific community

Information collected using scientific methods

Resource formed much more slowly than it is used

Application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment

Testable idea attempting to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question