Chapter 1 and 2

1.Environmental Science - the field that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature.
2.Biophilia - the love of life
3.Replication - several sets of measurement
4.Precision - how close to one another the repeated measurements of the same sample are.

5.) Inductive Reasoning - the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples.
6.) Environmental Justice - a social movement and field of study that works toward equal enforcement of environmental laws.

7.) Environmentalists - a person who participates in environmentalism
8.) Sustainability - living on Earth in a way that allows us to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources.
9.) Biodiversity - the diversity of life forms in an environment.

10.) Anthropogenic - derived from human activities.
11.) Development - improvement in human well
- being through economic advancement.
12.) Theory - a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance.

1.Matter - anything that occupies space and has mass.
2.Mass - a measure of the amount of matter it contains (no gravity)
3.Molecule - particles containing more than one atom.
4.Isotope - atoms of the same element with different number of neutrons.

5.) Radioactive Decay - the spontaneous release of material from the nucleus.
6.) Half - Life - the time it takes for one half of the original radioactive parent atom to decay.
7.) Law of Conservation of Matter - matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form.

8.) Inorganic Compound - compounds that do not contain Carbon or do contain carbon that is only bound to other elements other than hydrogen.
9.) Organic Compound - compounds that have carbon - carbon and carbon - hydrogen bonds.

10.) 1st Law of Thermodynamics - energy cannot be created or destroyed.
11.) 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminsishes.

12.) Entropy - the randomness of a system, always increases unless new energy from outside the system is added to create order.
13.) Open System - exchanges of matter/energy occur across system boundaries.
14.) Closed System - matter/energy exchanges across system boundaries do not occur.