Environmental Science Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

A broad explanation pertaining to a wide range of observations and situations. This has been well-tested.

• Sustainable

• Data

• Hypothesis

• Theory

Study of right and wrong

• Theory

• Ethics

• Data

• Ecological Footprint

Information gathered from an experiment or study

• Natural Resources

• Theory

• Data

• Environmentalism

Research report that gives a formal explanation by those in the scientific community

• Peer Review

• Dependent Variable

• Ethics

• Sustainable

The factor scientists change or manipulate in an experiment

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Data

Social movement with the purpose to protect the natural world

• Environment

• Ethics

• Environmentalism

• Ecological Footprint

A statement or idea that is testable and attempts to explain a phenomenon

• Hypothesis

• Natural Resource

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

Energy source or material people need to survive that is provided by nature

• Environmentalism

• Ecological Footprint

• Dependent Variable

• Natural Resource

Environmental effects of a group or individual in terms of waste produced and resources used

• Ethics

• Sustainable

• Ecological Footprint

• Environment

All non-living and living things organisms interact with

• Environment

• Sustainable

• Ethics

• Environmentalism