Environmental change and management

Question 1

What is the Biophysical Environment?

Answer 1

naturally occurring environments and how humans interact with these environments.

Question 2

Ecosystems

Answer 2

collection of living and non-living things interacting in a specific place.

Question 3

What are food chains

Answer 3

A food chain is a linear sequence (occurs in a straight line) of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.

Question 4

what is a food web

Answer 4

A food web consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

Question 5

Difference between food chain and food web

Answer 5

A food chain outlines who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem.

Question 6

What is a carbon cycle

Answer 6

The movement of carbon, in its many forms, between the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere is known as the carbon cycle.

Question 7

What is a nitrogen cycle

Answer 7

The nitrogen cycle describes how nitrogen moves between plants, animals, bacteria, the atmosphere (the air), and soil in the ground.

Question 8

what is environmental change

Answer 8

Environmental change is any alteration to an environment that disturbs natural ecological processes.

Question 9

What does Anthropogenic mean?

Answer 9

Anthropogenic means relating to or resulting from human activity.
(Anthropo = human; genic = change)