Environmental Science Unit 1 Flashcards

Front

Study of humans and their interactions with the environment

Back

Environmental Science

Front

Study of organisms and their environment

Back

Ecology

Front

Type of resource replenished as quickly as it is used

Back

Renewable resource

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Type of resource that cannot be replaced within a human lifetime

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Nonrenewable resource

Front

Resource that is never renewable

Back

Natural gas

Front

Indication of a larger ecological footprint

Back

Higher fossil fuel use

Front

Deductive reasoning goes from

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General → Specific

Front

Inductive reasoning goes from

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Specific → General

Front

Data that uses numbers

Back

Quantitative data

Front

Data that uses descriptions

Back

Qualitative data