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

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

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

Everything that affects an organism during its lifetime.

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

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

From the latin word “scientia” which means ____.

Solid earth.

The gases that surround the earth (air).

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

All life on earth.

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

Give me the 3 components of environment

3 Components of Physical Environment

3 Components of Biological Environment

3 Components of Cultural Environment

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

Give me the 5 Scientific method

Process of obtaining information by using senses.

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

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

Any pieces of information acquired through observation or experimentation.

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

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

Scientists use statistics to describe statistical populations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first step in the model is to ____ INFORMATION .

Second, consider which ____ ___ to the issue.

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

Natural resources are replenished in a short period of time.

Renewable recources consist of 5 part, what are those?

Energy from the sun.

Energy from the wind.

Energy from the flow of water.

Energy from the Earth’s heat.

Energy from burning organic or living matter.

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

EXAMPLES OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES:

Nuclear fission uses Uranium to create energy.

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

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

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?

Energy resources derived from natural organic materials are called.

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

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

Organism used in Biomass energy.

it is being harnessed through panels.