The study of how humans interact with the environment is this field of study.
What is environmental science?
100
For most of human history, people were these type of people, who obtained food by collecting plants and hunting animals.
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
This basic rule of economics states " that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth.
What is the law of supply and demand?
100
This is the collection and classification of data that are in the form of numbers.
What are statistics?
100
All of the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment is known as this collective term.
What is an ecosystem?
200
This field, the study of how living things interact with each other and with their non-living environment, is an important foundation for environmental science.
What is ecology?
200
This practice has caused valuable habitat to be destroyed in ways such as soil loss, flooding, water shortages and contamination.
What is agriculture?
200
This hypothetical "personal impact" shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country and people are constantly warmed of minimizing it.
What is an ecological footprint?
200
The number obtained by adding up the data for a given characteristic and dividing this sum by the number of individuals.
What is the mean?
200
These are the living and once living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
300
This field, the study of living organisms, contributes to environmental science.
What is biology?
300
This term refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area.
What is biodiversity?
300
This is the condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability?
300
The relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population.
What is distribution?
300
Air, water, rocks, sand, light and temperature are all examples of these parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
400
This field, the study of chemicals and their interactions, contributes to environmental science.
What is chemistry?
400
This term is used to refer to an undesired change in air, water or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.
What is pollution?
400
Ben Stiller performed this task in his profession in the movie Along Came Polly, but environmentalists use it to help create cost effective ways to protect our health and environment.
What is risk assessment?
400
This type of model is a verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized.
What is a conceptual model?
400
This is all the member of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.
What are populations?
500
This field, the study of human populations, contributes to environmental science.
What are the social sciences?
500
This historic time has contributed to the increase of artificial substances such as plastics, artificial pesticides and fertilizers which in turn have altered environments in negative ways.
What is the industrial revolution?
500
In an essay titled this, Garrett Hardin argued that the main difficulty in solving environmental problems is the conflict between the short-term interest of individuals and the long-term welfare of society- it is a tragedy of sorts.
What is The Tragedy of the Commons?
500
Meteorologists tend to use these types of models because the weather presents several variables that can be solved mathematically.
What are mathematical models?
500
this is a group of various species that live in the same place and interact with each other.