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| All matter,time,energy,and space;totality of all things that exist |
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| The percepitation of some aspects of the environment by one or more human senses;sight,hearing,touch,taste,or smell |
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| A human-made device that extends the senses beyond their normal limits |
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| an interpretation of an observation; mental process that proposescauses,conclusions,or explanations for what has been deserved |
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| grouping together of similar observations and inferences to make the study of objects and events in the environments more meaningful or easier to understand |
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| a means of expressing a observation with greater accuracy or precision; provides a numerical value for an aspect of the object or event being observed by comparision with a standard |
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| the amount of matter in an object |
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| the amount of space that an object occupies |
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| the numerical amount, expressed as a percent, by which a measurement differs from a given standard or accepted value |
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| the consentration of matter in a object |
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| a type of inference about the conditions and behavior of the environment in the future |
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the boundaries between regions with different properties |
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| the materials and energy resourses found in the environment that humans use in their daily lives |
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| a non-human-related object,process,or situations that has the possibility of causing loss of life,personal injury, or loss of property |
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| an orderly change in the environment in which an event repeats itself with reference to time and space |
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| a condition of the balancing out of opposing forces or actions |
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| the occurances in the environment of a substance or form of energy in concentrations large enough to have an adverse effect on people, their property, or plant or animal life |
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| how much a measurable aspect of the environment, called a field, is altered over a given time-years, hours, or seconds |
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