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SDI Environmental Science Verified 2024
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SDI Environmental Science Verified 2024Atoms - ANSWER-The smallest particles that exhibit the characteristics of an element.
Controlled Study - ANSWER-By comparing a treatment (exposed) group and a control
(unexposed) group, you have also made this a _________.
Critical Thinking - ANSWER-_________: A term we use to describe logical, orderly,
analytical assessment of ideas, evidence, and arguments.
Crude birth rate - ANSWER-________: The number of births in a year per thousand
persons.
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER-Reasoning from general to specific is known as
____________.
Demography - ANSWER-________: This encompasses vital statistics about people,
such as births, deaths, and where they live, as well as total population size.
Ecological footprint - ANSWER-________: This estimates the relative amount of
productive land required to support each of us.
Ecological footprint analysis - ANSWER-________: This involves estimating the amount
of territory needed to support all your consumption of food, paper, computers, energy,
water, and other resources.
Environmental Science - ANSWER-The use of scientific approaches to understand the
complex systems in which we live; the systematic study of our environment and our
place in it.
Equilibrium - ANSWER-When a system is in a stable balance, we say it is in
__________.
Family Planning - ANSWER-________: This allows couples to determine the number
and spacing of their children.
Famines - ANSWER-____________: These are large-scale food shortages, with
widespread starvation and social disruption.
Genetic engineering - ANSWER-____________: This is splicing a gene from one
organism into the chromosome of another, has the potential to greatly increase both the
quantity and the quality of our food supply.
GMO - ANSWER-It is now possible to build entirely new genes, and even new
organisms, often called "transgenic" organisms or _____________.
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