Biological Community

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Terms and Definitions Worksheet

Write brief descriptions for each of the following terms. If you use an outside source to define them, include an APA citation for the source.

|Scientific method |A procedural method that consist of systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses |

| |(Biology on line). |

|Environmental science |Environmental Science is the study of the myriad interactions between the world and humans. This also includes living and non-living in the world |

| |around them. (Daniel Pardieck). |

|Anthropocentrism |Anthropocentrism is the tendency for human beings to illogically regard themselves as the central and most important creatures in the universe, or the |

| |assessment of reality through an exclusively human point of view (Webster, 2010). |

|Biocentrism |Biocentricism believes that all things that are living, including humans and living creatures are all members of the earth community (Mizzoni, 2008). |

|Dualism |Dualism is the idea that our brain is more than just our brain. This idea demonstrates that our mind has a non-material, spiritual measurement that |

| |comprises of consciousness and possibly an eternal element (About philosophy)....