Schools of Thought Worksheet

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Schools of Thought Worksheet

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

|General Terms |

|Ecology |A science that deals with the relationships between groups of living things and their environments ("Merriam-Webster", 2014). |

|Environmental justice |A recognition that access to a clean, healthy environment is a fundamental right of all human beings (McGraw-Hill, 2003). |

|Environmental science |The systematic, scientific study of our environment as well as our role in it (McGraw-Hill, 2003). |

|Ethics |An area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior: a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong |

| |("Merriam-Webster", 2014). |

|Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) |An organism whose genome has been altered in order to favor the expression of desired physiological traits or the output of desired biological products|

| |(Merriam-Webster, 2014). |

|Renewable energy |Any energy resource that is naturally regenerated over a short time scale and derived directly from the sun (such as thermal,...