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Chapter 1 Notebook Assignments
Name and period: ____________________
Answers should be in sentences unless otherwise specified.
A Create a timeline of the Unit Case “A Watery Balancing Act.”
B Four scientists are described in the Central Case. List their names
and how they contributed to the case.
1.1 Describe how environmental scientists are different from
C environmental activists?
D Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Explain what kinds of resources are sustainable.
E Explain why population growth a problem for the environment.
F Describe the biggest problem with common areas, and at least one
solution.
1.2
G Create a concept map or cluster diagram of pages 12 and 13.
H Explain why exploration and discovery are important to science.
I Describe the relationship between a hypothesis, prediction, and
model.
J Create a chart showing how experiments, observational studies,
controlled variables, repetition, and interpreting data can help
support or contradict a hypothesis.
1.3 Create a chart showing how peer review, replication, and selfK correction help establish scientific theories.
L Explain how a person’s beliefs can influence Environmental Science.
M List the three important environmental ethical standards and a one
sentence description of each.
N Describe what evidence scientists have used to discover the story of
Easter Island.
Vocab Define in your own words and use in a sentence or draw a picture of each
word or affix.
Bellringers See side whiteboard for dates included in this chapter.
Review Attach the answers from: the review worksheet; or questions 1-17
from the Chapter Assessment in the book.
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Key Terms, roots, and
affixes:
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Put each definition in your own words. Please use another sheet of paper if you run out of room.
Key Term
environment
environmental
science
environmentalism
natural resource
renewable natural
resources
nonrenewable
natural resources
sustainable
fossil fuel
ecological footprint
hypothesis
prediction
independent
variable
Defined in your own words
Picture or sentence
using the word or affix.
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dependent variable
controlled study
data
peer review
theory
ethics
environmental
ethics
-ism
eco-
environ
-ment
-able
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A. 1) A thriving _____________________ community exists where the Chorro Creek flows in to Morro Bay.
2) _____________________ move in to the area, clearing land, which allowed ____________________
to build up in the bay. 3) After working to fix the sediment problem, __________________ continued to
be a problem because nutrients caused _______________ to over grow. 4) People worked together to
_____________________ the nutrients and restore the bay and creek.
B.
Scientist
Paul Crutzen
C.
D.
E.
F.
Contribution
Formed a hypothesis that ________________ had the potential to
______________________ the ozone layer. Created a ____________________
of the ozone depletion process.
James Lovelock
Invented an instrument to detect ___________________________ chemicals,
including CFC’s.
Mario Molina
With Rowland, investigated how CFCs move through and
_____________________ with other chemicals.
Sherwood Rowland With Molina, investigated how CFCs move through and
_____________________with other chemicals.
Environmental scientists try to understand the _______________________ between humans and the
environment. Environmental activists try to protect the world from _____________________changes
created by people.
Renewable and nonrenewable resources are both _____________________ by nature. Renewable
resources are replenished ______________________. Nonrenewable resources are
___________________ much faster than they are created. Resources are sustainable when they are
used ______________ ____________________ than they are _____________________________.
The environmental resources are ___________________. As the population grows, there are fewer
resources for each _____________________. Eventually, there won’t be enough resources to
_____________________the population and ____________________ and ______________________
will arise.
Common areas are not ___________________________ by anyone so they are susceptible to being
________________________ by everyone. One possible solution is for the users to cooperate and use
the area _____________________________.
G.
Science is:
a. A _____________________ for
learning about the world, and
b. The body of _________________
we get from that process.
Scientists collect
the
___________world
_______________
_________
______________
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H. Exploration is where _______________________ discoveries begin. Scientists observe the
__________________ around them and begin their investigations based on what they _____________
or read.
I. Scientists begin with a ________________________ idea, a hypothesis, to ________________________
a phenomenon. They use the hypothesis to make _____________________________ about how
something will react if the hypothesis is ______________________. For things that can’t be directly
observed, scientists use models to _______________________________ the system.
J.
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
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How they help support or contradict a hypothesis
Conducting an experiment can _____________________the hypothesis
directly. If the results are as expected, the hypothesis is
_________________________, if they are not, the hypothesis is contradicted.
Scientists look for ________________ in the natural world. If what they
observe is what they __________________, then the hypothesis is
supported, if they are not, the hypothesis is contradicted.
Controlled _____________________ are important to eliminate unwanted
influences from things not being tested. Experiments and observations
cannot be supported or contradicted if an ___________________________ is
not valid.
Reliable tests must be repeatable to be __________________. If an
experiment or observation is not valid it cannot support or contradict the
hypothesis.
Raw data cannot support or contradict a hypothesis. It must be
____________________ and compared to see how it relates to the
hypothesis.
K.
Relation to theory development
Before research is ________________________, it is reviewed by others in that
field. If it passes their scrutiny, it is published. If not, it is
_____________________. Peers must accept the research for it to become a
theory.
replication
Research can only be applied to a theory if it can be _______________________
by another scientist.
self-correction
Scientists must accept ___________________ that contradict their theories and
adjust their hypothesis. When their ________________________ agrees with
their hypothesis, it might be used to support a theory.
L. A person’s world view can ________________________ how they interpret ______________ from
research. One country may act to eliminate a _______________________while another does not
believe it is a problem. A scientist’s _________________________ may influence their observations or
the emphasis of their _________________________.
M.
a. Anthropocentrism. This is a human-centered view where the _____________________ to
humans are more important than other aspects.
b. Biocentrism. This is a life-centered view where ________________ living things receive the
same consideration.
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c. Ecocentrism. This is a ___________________________ system view where the larger
community is the most important, not the _______________________________________.
N. Scientists used ________________ from mud cores to discover historical plant life. Scientists used
archaeological evidence to discover historical __________________________.