chapter one key terms

Question 1

What is environmental science?

Answer 1

the study of the environment that includes the physical, biological, and social sciences.

Question 2

What is Ecology?

Answer 2

this is the study of how living things interact with each other with their nonliving environment

Question 3

What is Agriculture?

Answer 3

this is the practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other purposes

Question 4

What are natural resources?

Answer 4

Natural resources can be classified as renewable or nonrenewable,

Question 5

What are renewable recourses?

Answer 5

a renewable resource is a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes

Question 6

What is a nonrenewable recourse?

Answer 6

a nonrenewable resource is a resource that formed at a much slower rate than that rate that is consumed

Question 7

What is biodiversity?

Answer 7

Biodiversity refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area

Question 8

What is pollution?

Answer 8

Pollution is a horrible thing, it is an undesired change in the air, water, or soil that adversely affect the health, survival, or activities of humans or other living creatures, pollution is caused by factories, car gas/ecostion, plastic, and trash that is discarded and not throws into the trash.