Environmental Science

2. occurs when we use our senses (smell, sight, hearing, taste, touch).
6. a mixture of traditional science, individual and societal values, economic factors, and political realities.
7. all living organisms in the individual's environment such as plants, animals, and microbes.
10. widely accepted, plausible generalization about fundamental concepts in science that explains why things happen.
11. study of energy and its changes.
13. a central characteristic of the scientific method.
15. too many nutrients cause algae growth
18. a statement that provides a possible answer to a question.
19. plants release water vapor
21. liquid water changes into vapor
25. water stored below Earth’s surface
27. ability to do work or cause change.
28. movement of water around earth
29. scientist who proposed the four laws of ecology.
30. bacteria return nitrogen to the air

1. a group of individuals of the same species living in a particular geographic area.
3. composed of all the biotic components in an area along with that area's abiotic components.
4. plants release water vapor
5. advocacy for the protection or preservation of the natural environment.
8. a uniform or constant fact of nature that describes what happens in nature.
9. Everything that affects an organism during its lifetime
12. nonlicing chemical ang physical factors such as temperature, light, water, and nutrients.
14. plants use sunlight to make food.
16. the protective blanket of gases, surrounding the Earth.
17. all water found on earth
20. organized body of knowledge
22. Seeks to understand the natural world.
23. systematic study of the physical and biological factors in the environment.
24. water vapor becomes liquid
26. movement of sulfur through Earth.