ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

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Lanz Hassan

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An interdisciplinary field that includes both scientific and social aspects as human impact on the world.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Includes Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, and Medicine which examines the natural world.

NATURAL SCIENCE

Includes economics, political science, sociology, history, philosophy, and ethics which examines values and human behavior

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Everything that affects an organism during its lifetime.

ENVIRONMENT

From the French word “environ” which means to ______ or _______.

ENCIRCLE OR SURROUND

Can defined as a process of producing empirical knowledge about the natural world through methodical and logical studies of nature.

SCIENCE

From the latin word “scientia” which means ____.

KNOWLEDGE

Solid earth.

LITHOSPHERE

The gases that surround the earth (air).

ATMOSPHERE

all water found on, under, and over the surface of earth.

HYDROSPHERE

All life on earth.

BIOSPHERE

Interaction of the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere.

EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE

Give me the 3 components of environment

PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

3 Components of Physical Environment

ATMOSPHERE, HYDROSPHERE, LITHOSPHERE

3 Components of Biological Environment

FLORAL, FAUNAL, MICROBIA

3 Components of Cultural Environment

SOCIETY, ECONOMY, POLITICS

This method consists of a series of steps that scientists worldwide use to identify and answer questions.

EXPERIMENTAL/SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Give me the 5 Scientific method

OBSERVATION, QUESTION, HYPOTHESIS, ANALYZING DATA, CONCLUSION

Process of obtaining information by using senses.

OBSERVATION

A theory or explanation based on observations that can be tested.

HYPOTHESIS

Procedures that are carried out under controlled conditions to discover, demonstrate, test a fact, theory, or general truth.

EXPERIMENTATION

Any pieces of information acquired through observation or experimentation.

ORGANIZING AND ANALYZING DATA

Determines the results of their experiment by analyzing their data and comparing the outcome of their experiments with their prediction.

CONCLUSION

the collection and classification of data that are in the form of numbers.

STATISTICS

Scientists use statistics to describe statistical populations.

STATISTICS WORK WITH POPULATION

a group of similar things that a scientist is interested in learning about.

STATISTICAL POPULATION

the number obtained by adding up the data for a given characteristic and dividing this sum by the number of individuals.

MEAN

the likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event.

PROBABILITY

patterns, plans, representations, or descriptions designed to show the structure or workings of an object, system, or concept.

MODELS

Scientists use graphical models to show things such as the position of the stars, the amount of forest cover in a given area, and the

GRAPICAL MODELS

are verbal or graphical explanations for how a system works or is organized.

CONCEPTUAL MODELS

are one or more equations that represent the way system or process works.

MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Describe three values that people consider when making decisions about the environment.

MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS

The first step in the model is to ____ INFORMATION .

GATHER INFORMATION

Second, consider which ____ ___ to the issue.

VALUES APPLY

These are things that are found in the surroundings that support all living species.

RESOURCES

Natural resources are replenished in a short period of time.

RENEWABLE RESOUCES

Renewable recources consist of 5 part, what are those?

SOLAR, WIND, WATER, GEOTHERMAL, BIOMASS

Energy from the sun.

SOLAR ENERGY

Energy from the wind.

WIND ENERGY

Energy from the flow of water.

WATER ENERGY

Energy from the Earth’s heat.

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Energy from burning organic or living matter.

BIOMASS ENERGY

A natural resource that cannot be re-made, re-grown or regenerated

NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES

EXAMPLES OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES:

COAL, OIL, NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR

Nuclear fission uses Uranium to create energy.

NUCLEAR ENERGY

____ is an energy resource that will not run out in the next several hundred years.

RENEWABLE RESOURCES

_____ and. _____ transform plant and animal remains into fossil fuels.

HEAT AND PRESSURE

Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth's surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource?

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Energy resources derived from natural organic materials are called.

FOSSIL FUELS

Turbines convert _____ energy of wind and water into electricity or mechanical power.

KINETIC

A solid fuel found in fossilized swamps that have been burried beneath layers of sediments.

COAL

Organism used in Biomass energy.

LIVING ORGANISMS

it is being harnessed through panels.

SOLAR ENERGY

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