ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stellar Evolution, Seismic Wave, Extrusive Rock
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Environment: biotic (living things, abiotic (non living) Our built environments: roads, buildings, dams, factories, etc. Social relationships and institutions: governments, universities, religions, economies, cultures. Environmentalism- a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world. Environmental science: how natural world works, how natural resources and processes support life, how human activities affect the environment. What is science: a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it, the accumulated body of knowledge that arises from this dynamic process, scientific method. Testing ideas through observation, questioning and experimentation: assumption: Pseudoscience is fixed ideas with no peer review and selects only favourable discoveries. Session 4: how is science doe: an aside on hypotheses reading: chapter 2. What is a hypothesis: a provisional statement that proposes a possible explanation for a observed phenomenon. What is a null hypothesis: a statement of no effect, experimental results are analyzed to see whether they support the (alternate) hypothesis or the null, example.
