Chapter 1 Vocabulary

  1. abiotic factors
  2. agricultural revolution
  3. alternative hypotheses
  4. biodiversity
  5. biotic factors
  6. control
  7. controlled experiment
  8. correlation
  9. data
  10. dependent variable
  11. ecological footprint
  12. ecology
  13. environment
  14. environmentalism
  15. environmental science
  16. environmental studies
  17. experiment
  18. fossil fuels
  19. hypothesis
  20. independent variable
  21. industrial revolution
  22. interdisciplinary
  23. Malthus, Thomas
  24. manipulative experiment
  25. natural experiment
  26. natural resources
  27. natural sciences
  28. nonrenewable natural resources
  29. overshoot
  30. paradigm
  31. peer review
  32. prediction
  33. probability
  34. renewable natural resources
  35. science
  36. scientific method
  37. social sciences
  38. sustainability
  39. sustainable development
  40. theory
  41. treatment
  42. “Triple Bottom Line”
  43. variables