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2. A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.
3. Involved utilitarian conservation
6. experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment
8. The sum total of our surroundings, including all of the living things and nonliving things with which we interact.
10. A statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
12. The study of how the natural world functions and how humans and the environment interact.

1. A formalized method for testing ideas with observations that involves several assumptions and a more or less consistent series of interrelated steps.
3. A specific statement that can be tested directly and unequivocally
4. This era saw the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970
5. A guiding principle of environmental science that requires us to live in such a way as to maintain Earth's systems and its natural resources for the foreseeable future.
7. A conclusion we reach based on what we have seen, heard, felt, or smelled.
9. Said population growth must be restricted, or it will outstrip food production
11. “Bottom-up” reasoning