Across
- 3. A branch of philosophy that involves the study of good and bad, right and wrong.
- 6. Ethicicists who believe that ethics do and should vary with social context.
- 7. A statement that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question
- 9. Having surpassed the Earth's capacity to sustainably support us.
- 10. Consists of all living and non-living things around us.
- 12. Information
- 15. Judges actions in terms of their effects on whole ecological systems, which consists of living and nonliving elements and the relationships among them.
- 16. A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment.
Down
- 1. A view that holds we should protect our environment in a pristine, unaltered state.
- 2. An activity designed to test the validity of a prediction or hypothesis. A good experiment should be repeatable or able to be replicated
- 4. Conditions that change
- 5. Ethicists maintain that there exist objective notions of right and wrong that hold across all cultures and contexts.
- 8. A dominant view.
- 11. A widely accepted, well tested explanation of one or more cause and effect relationships that has to have been extensively validated by a great amount of research.
- 13. A view that holds that people should put natural resources to use, but that we have a responsibility to use them wisely.
- 14. A specific statement that can be directly and unequivocally tested.