Glossary
Environmental Science Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential environmental science professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key environmental science professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in environmental science professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Biodiversity
- Variety of life.
- Carbon footprint
- Greenhouse gases produced.
- Climate change
- Long-term climate shifts.
- Ecosystem
- Living and nonliving parts of an area.
- Environmental justice
- Fair protection from harm.
- Office hours
- Time set aside for students.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Restoration
- Repairing ecosystems.
- Sabbatical
- Paid leave for research.
- Sustainability
- Meeting needs without harming the future.
- Syllabus
- Course plan.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
- Water quality
- Condition of water.
- Watershed
- Land draining to water.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Environmental Science Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Environmental Science Professor training.
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