Intro to Environmental

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Across
  1. 1. experiments need to be ____ so we can be confident in results
  2. 3. environment is used to describe the ___ world
  3. 5. number of variables that can change during an experiment
  4. 9. ___ of Commons
  5. 10. data that is descriptions, words
  6. 13. scientific theory explains a phenomenon and is supported by many fields of ___
  7. 14. the scientific ____ is a term used to describe the way in which scientists gather and use information
  8. 17. values the ecosystem as a whole
  9. 19. branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
  10. 20. what is kept the same in an experiment
  11. 21. variable you are measuring
  12. 24. variable you change in an experiment
  13. 27. never eat or ____ in the lab
  14. 29. this is NOT allowed during lab time
  15. 30. rate at which we must use resources
  16. 31. purely scientific study of nature
  17. 32. an ecological ____ is a measure of demands made by one person or group on global natural resources
  18. 33. countries with a higher footprint are more _____
Down
  1. 1. resources that are naturally replenished over short periods of time
  2. 2. most value is on humans and human welfare
  3. 4. when a resource is ____ it can lead to a Tragedy of Commons
  4. 6. environment includes living & ____
  5. 7. charts, graphs, tables are ways to organize ___
  6. 8. individuals at the same level of education or specialization
  7. 11. type of reasoning that looks for patterns or rules in the natural world
  8. 12. type of reasoning that compares new things to the rules of the natural world
  9. 15. ____ all accidents in the lab at once
  10. 16. values each organism including humans
  11. 18. a hypothesis is a ____ explanation for a question or problem
  12. 22. fossil fuels are this type of resource
  13. 23. simply a way of logical thinking about the world
  14. 25. data that is numbers, measurements
  15. 26. this supports or rejects the hypothesis
  16. 28. scientists use ____ about the world around them to make inferences