Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Notebook AssignmentsName and period: ______

Possible / Grade / Classmate
Answers should be in sentences unless otherwise specified. / Points / Yourself* / Check**
A / Create a timeline of the Unit Case “A Watery Balancing Act.” / 3
B / Four scientists are described in the Central Case. List their names and how they contributed to the case. / 4
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C / Describe how environmental scientists are different from environmental activists? / 2
D / Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable resources. Explain whatkinds of resources are sustainable. / 4
E / Explain why population growth a problem for the environment. / 3
F / Describe the biggest problem with common areas, and at least one solution. / 3
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G / Create a concept map or cluster diagram of pages 12 and 13. / 6
H / Explain why exploration and discovery are important to science. / 2
I / Describe the relationship between a hypothesis, prediction, and model. / 3
J / Create a chart showing how experiments, observational studies, controlled variables, repetition, and interpreting data can help support or contradict a hypothesis. / 10
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K / Create a chart showing how peer review, replication, and self-correction help establish scientific theories. / 3
L / Explain how a person’s beliefs can influence Environmental Science. / 3
M / List the three important environmental ethical standards and a one sentence description of each. / 6
N / Describe what evidence scientists have used to discover the story of Easter Island. / 2
Vocab / Define in your own words and use in a sentence or draw a picture of each word or affix. / 48
Bell-ringers / See side whiteboard for dates included in this chapter. / 10
Review / Attach the answers from: the review worksheet; or questions 1-17 from the Chapter Assessment in the book. / 20
Total: / 132

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Key Terms, roots, and affixes: / Chapter 19
Put each definition in your own words. Please use another sheet of paper if you run out of room.
Key Term / Defined in your own words / Picture or sentence using the word or affix.
environment
environmental science
environmentalism
natural resource
renewable natural resources
nonrenewable natural resources
sustainable
fossil fuel
ecological footprint
hypothesis
prediction
independent variable
dependent variable
controlled study
data
peer review
theory
ethics
environmental ethics
-ism
eco-
environ
-ment
-able
  1. 1) A thriving ______community exists where the Chorro Creek flows in to Morro Bay. 2) ______move in to the area, clearing land, which allowed ______to build up in the bay. 3)After working to fix the sediment problem, ______continued to be a problem because nutrients caused ______to over grow. 4) People worked together to ______the nutrients and restore the bay and creek.

Scientist / Contribution
Paul Crutzen / Formed a hypothesis that ______had the potential to ______the ozone layer. Created a ______of the ozone depletion process.
James Lovelock / Invented an instrument to detect ______chemicals, including CFC’s.
Mario Molina / With Rowland, investigated how CFCs move through and ______with other chemicals.
Sherwood Rowland / With Molina, investigated how CFCs move through and ______with other chemicals.
  1. Environmental scientists try to understand the ______between humans and the environment. Environmental activists try to protect the world from ______changes created by people.
  2. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are both ______by nature. Renewable resources are replenished ______. Nonrenewable resources are ______much faster than they are created. Resources are sustainable when they are used ______than they are ______.
  3. The environmental resources are ______. As the population grows, there are fewer resources for each ______. Eventually, there won’t be enough resources to ______the population and ______and ______will arise.
  4. Common areas are not ______by anyone so they are susceptible to being ______by everyone. One possible solution is for the users to cooperate and use the area ______.
  1. Exploration is where ______discoveries begin. Scientists observe the ______around them and begin their investigations based on what they ______or read.
  2. Scientists begin with a ______idea, a hypothesis, to ______a phenomenon. They use the hypothesis to make ______about how something will react if the hypothesis is ______. For things that can’t be directly observed, scientists use models to ______the system.

How they help support or contradict a hypothesis
______/ Conducting an experiment can ______the hypothesis directly. If the results are as expected, the hypothesis is ______, if they are not, the hypothesis is contradicted.
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______/ Scientists look for ______in the natural world. If what they observe is what they ______, then the hypothesis is supported, if they are not, the hypothesis is contradicted.
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______/ Controlled ______are important to eliminate unwanted influences from things not being tested. Experiments and observations cannot be supported or contradicted if an ______is not valid.
______/ Reliable tests must be repeatable to be ______. If an experiment or observation is not valid it cannot support or contradict the hypothesis.
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______/ Raw data cannot support or contradict a hypothesis. It must be ______and compared to see how it relates to the hypothesis.
Relation to theory development
peer review / Before research is ______, it is reviewed by others in that field. If it passes their scrutiny, it is published. If not, it is ______. Peers must accept the research for it to become a theory.
replication / Research can only be applied to a theory if it can be ______by another scientist.
self-correction / Scientists must accept ______that contradict their theories and adjust their hypothesis. When their ______agrees with their hypothesis, it might be used to support a theory.
  1. A person’s world view can ______how they interpret ______from research. One country may act to eliminate a ______while another does not believe it is a problem. A scientist’s ______may influence their observations or the emphasis of their ______.
  2. Anthropocentrism. This is a human-centered view where the ______to humans are more important than other aspects.
  3. Biocentrism. This is a life-centered view where ______living things receive the same consideration.
  4. Ecocentrism. This is a ______system view where the larger community is the most important, not the ______.
  5. Scientists used ______from mud cores to discover historical plant life. Scientists used archaeological evidence to discover historical ______.