What is environmental science?
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary science that aims to understand and solve environmental problems.
What farming culture changed the way some plants look today?
Agricultural Revolution
This refers to long-term patterns of temperature, humidity, and precipitation in a particular region.
What is climate?
These catastrophic events, caused by natural processes, can have devastating effects on the environment and human communities
What are natural disasters
What is prato's fav sports team
New York Jets
What is ecology?
The study of interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment is known as ecology.
What was the name of the people who foraged for food and hunted their prey?
Hunter Gatherers
Short-term atmospheric conditions, such as temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation, are known as this.
What is weather?
This natural disaster happens when tectonic plates rub against each other
Earthquake
What kind of plants are growing in the corner?
Lettuce!
The major goal of environmental science is...
to understand and solve environmental problems.
What effect on the environment happened after humans started hunting buffalo?
Buffalo Population went down, Landscape was cleared
fog
This geological formation occurs when tectonic plates crash into each other
Mountains
What are the things a plant needs for photosynthesis
water, sunlight, carbon dioxide
biology is the study of
life
What resource started to be utilized during the Industrial Revolution?
Fossil fuels, coals...etc
What is the name of water in various forms falling from the sky/ clouds?
precipitation
List 3 natural disasters
hurricane, tornado, avalanche, mudslide, earthquake, tsunami...etc
What kinds of living organisms were we searching for when we swabbed the school?
microorganisms/ bacteria
However, the observations of ________are the first steps toward addressing an environmental problem.
nonscientists
What consequence did the Industrial Revolution have on the environment?
Population increase, introduction of pollution
What is latitude?
What was the name of the hurricane that hurt NJ in 2012
Sandy
What is the point of wearing gloves in an experiment?
To avoid cross-contamination