Across
- 2. an objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes
- 4. a person who participates in a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism and education
- 8. an estimate of how much a measured of calculated value differs from a true value
- 9. the diversity of life forms in an environment
- 10. the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples
- 11. a theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing
- 15. process essential to all scientific endeavors
- 16. the procedure used to take several sets of measurements
- 17. development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations
- 20. living components of an ecosystem
- 21. indicators describe the current state of an environmental system
- 22. gases in the Earth's atmosphere that act like a blanket trapping heat near the Earth's surface
- 27. a particular location on Earth whose interacting components include living and nonliving components
- 30. services the process by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries and agricultural crops are produced
- 31. occurs when a natural event acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem
- 33. is a social movement and field of study that works towards equal enforcement of environmental laws
- 34. the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations
Down
- 1. how close to one another the repeated measurements of the same sample are
- 3. living on Earth in a way that allow us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources
- 5. studies additional subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature, and ethics
- 6. a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group except for the single variable under study
- 7. the evolution of a new species
- 12. the sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life
- 13. any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials
- 14. nonliving components of an ecosystem
- 18. something that is derived from human activities
- 19. a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and ahs reached wide acceptance
- 23. the field that looks a interactions among human systems and those found in nature
- 24. footprint a measure of how much a person consumer, expressed in area of land
- 25. the number of times a measurement is replicated
- 26. how close a measured value is to the actual or true value
- 28. improvement in human well-being through economic advancement
- 29. a testable conjecture about how something works
- 32. a group of organisms that is distinct from other groups in it morphology, behavior, or biochemical properties.