ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hubble Space Telescope, Interstellar Cloud, Ultraviolet
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Environment: everything around us with which we interact. Biotic (living things: animals, plants, forests, soils, etc. Abiotic (nonliving things: continents, rocks, oceans, clouds, icescapes, etc, roads, buildings, dams, factories, etc. How natural resources and processes support life. Interactions between humans and the physical and biological world. A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world. Testing ideas through observation, questioning, and experimentation: assumptions. The universe works according to natural laws. Events arise from causes, and cause other events. We use logic, systematic testing, and our senses to understand natural laws: scientists . Use hypotheses to generate predictions specific statements that can be tested. Interpret test results support or reject hypothesis: the scientific process. Uncertainty is a fundamental part of the scientific process. A consistently supported hypothesis becomes a theory. Some theories lead to a paradigm shift. Comprehensive scientific assessment of the state of the world"s ecosystems ad their ability to support life and civilization.
