Across
- 6. A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events
- 8. Describes the shift from rural life, with animal powered agriculture and hand-made manufacturing.
- 10. Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis
- 11. Any part of of an ecosystem that is living or used to be living
- 12. A nonrenewable natural resource produced by the decomposition and compression of organic matter
- 14. Any part of an ecosystem that has never been living.
- 15. The study of how the natural world works, how the environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
- 17. Natural materials, and energy sources found in nature.
- 20. Natural resource that can be replenished or renewed
- 21. Is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.
- 22. The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
Down
- 1. Also called constants these are factors in an experiment that remain constant and are kept the same
- 2. The tendency of a shared, limited resource to be come depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain
- 3. The total area of productive land and water required to provide raw materials that a population consumes and to dispose of the waste produced
- 4. Natural resources that are limited and are formed much more slowly than we use them
- 5. All the living and nonliving things in which organisms interact.
- 7. Preference or viewpoint that is personal, not scientific
- 9. Factor that can change in an experiment
- 13. A functioning society that is able to survive long term
- 16. The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable who's effect is being studied
- 18. Is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
- 19. Used to generate predictions when a phenomenon cannot be observed directly