Understanding Our Environment
Other Environmental Terms
Fields of Study that Contribute to E.S.
100
The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
What is environmental science?
100
The practive of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other purposes.
What is agriculture?
100
The study of living organisms.
What is biology?
200
The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment.
What is ecology?
200
Refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area.
What is biodiversity?
200
The study of the Earth's nonliving systems and the planet as a whole.
What is Earth science?
300
This is a major field of study that contributes to environmental science.
What is biology, earth science, physics, chemistry, or social sciences?
300
The condition in which human needs are me in such a way that a human poulation can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability?
300
The study of matter and energy.
What is physics?
400
People who optain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains.
What are hunter-gatherers?
400
When the demand for a product increases while the supply remains fixed, the cost of the product will increase.
What is the law of supply and demand?
400
The study of chemicals and their interactions.
What is chemistry?
500
Much of environmental science is concerned with the problems associated with
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
Resources that can theoretically last forever are called _________ resources.
What is renewable?
500
Geography, anthropology, and psychology are examples of this field of study.
What are social sciences?
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