ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Positive Feedback, Outer Core, Continental Crust

• School: UTM
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENV100Y5
• Professor: Monika Havelka

Document Summary

> environmental science helps us understand how the environment works and our relationship with the environment. > environmental science is necessarily an interdisciplinary undertaking. > science is a systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding. > science involves making observations, connections, predictions and testing them in rigorous framework to test the hypotheses. > when we make a hypothesis, we ask questions, such as what causes this? or what causes that? or what controls this? , etc. > when we make a hypothesis, we make a provisional explanation to answer the question being asked. > we use hypothesizes to generate predications and if and then statements as well. > good hypotheses can also lead to other questions. > the idea of a causal relationship is implied in a hypothesis, meaning that if x happens, then y happens. > if i have theoretical basis and evidence to back up my hypothesis, then it becomes a theory.