EN SC Ch. 1 Terms

Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• Environment

• Biology

• Science

• Resources

The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment

• Environmental Science

• Environment

• Biology

• Ecology

A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.

• Environmentalism

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Global Warmers

Materials and energy sources found in nature.

• Natural Resources

• Sustainablility

• Fossil Fuels

• Footprints

Replenishes over a short period of time.

• Renewable Resources

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Ecology

• Life

Naturally formed much more slowly than we use them.

• Nonrenewable resource

• Renewable resource

• Consumable

• Sustainable

Another name for coal, oil and natural gas.

• Fossil fuels

• Energy

• Footprints

• Sustainable

Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

• Hypothesis

• Experiment

• Theory

• Prediction

Specific statements about what we would expect to observe if the hypotheses are true.

• Predictions

• Experiments

• Data

• Modeling

A variable that scientists manipulate, or input.

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

• Controlled variable

• Experimental variable