APES Unit 1 Vocabulary questions with verified solutions 2023/2024

APES Unit 1 Vocabularyenvironment - correct answer all of the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth or development of living things. environmental science - correct answer the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment system - correct answer instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity ecosystem - correct answer a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment biotic - correct answer of or relating to living organisms abiotic - correct answer nonliving, physical features of the environment, including air, water, sunlight, soil, temperature, and climate environmentalist - correct answer someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution environmental studies - correct answer Study of the environment, including the social, political, and ethical aspects or dimensions. ecosystem services - correct answer Important environmental benefits, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and fertile soil in which to grow crops, that ecosystems provide environmental indicators - correct answer organisms or physical factors that serve as a gauge for environmental changes. More specifically organisms with these characteristics are called bioindicators sustainability - correct answer the property of being sustainable ( able to be maintained at a certain rate or level) biodiversity - correct answer the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) species - correct answer a specific kind of something speciation - correct answer the evolution of a biological species background extinction rate - correct answer the rate at which species are lost from normal evolution greenhouse gases - correct answer Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect. anthropogenic - correct answer of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings development - correct answer the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful sustainable development - correct answer Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. biophilia - correct answer the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life ecological footprint - correct answer The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population. scientific method - correct answer a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses hypothesis - correct answer a tentative theory about the natural world null hypothesis - correct answer The hypothesis that states there is no difference between two or more sets of data. replication - correct answer the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion sample size - correct answer The number of subjects used in an experiment or study. Generally, the larger the better. accuracy - correct answer the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value precision - correct answer the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance uncertainty - correct answer being unsettled or in doubt inductive reasoning - correct answer reasoning from detailed facts to general principles deductive reasoning - correct answer reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) critical thinking - correct answer thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. theory - correct answer a tentative theory about the natural world control group - correct answer in an experiment, a group that serves as a standard of comparison with another group to which the control group is identical except for one factor natural experiment - correct answer An experiment in which the researcher does not control the situation