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Environment
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Environment is the
circumstances and conditions
that surround an organism ora group of organisms
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Ecology
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Ecology is the study of an
organism or organisms, the
impact of the environment on
them, and their impact on the
environment.
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Environmental science
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Environmental science is
the systematic study of our
environment and our place in
it.
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Empiricism
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Empiricism: we can understand fundamentalprocesses and natural laws by observation
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Uniformitarianism
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Uniformitarianism: basic patterns and processes areuniform across time and space
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Parsimony
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Parsimony: when two plausible explanations are
reasonable, the simpler one is preferable
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Uncertainty
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Uncertainty: knowledge changes as new evidence
appears
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Repeatability
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Repeatability (reproducibility): Tests and experimentsshould be repeatable
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Proof is elusive
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_ Proof is elusive: Science cannot provide absolute
proof. So even the most well accepted concepts
remain “theories”
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Testable questions
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Testable questions: to find out whether a theory is
correct it must be tested; we formulate testablehypotheses (educated guess
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Fecundity
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Fecundity - physical ability to reproduce
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Fertility
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Fertility - the actual production of offspring
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Crude birth rate
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Crude birth rate - number of births per year
per thousand people
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Total fertility rate
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Total fertility rate - number of children bornto an average
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Zero population growth
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Zero population growth (ZPG) - occurs
when births + immigration just equal deaths +
emigration
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