FIRST EXAM Flashcards
It is a place where different things are such as a wet or hot environment
ENVIRONMENT
Defines the systematized body of knowledge that builds and organizes a lot of information in a different form of testable experiments and predictions about everything in the universe
SCIENCE
An interdisciplinary academic field in science that integrates all the physical, biological, and information to the sturdy of the environment, and the solution to environmental problems
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
A branch of biology concerning interactions among organisms, and their biophysical environment includes both biotic and abiotic components
ECOLOGY
The study of matter, its properties, how and why substances combine or separate to form other elements, and how elements interact with energy
CHEMISTRY
A group of different individual life that inhibit the planet earth.
BIODIVERSITY
Considered an environment is naturally occurring to a specific organism to survive
HABITAT
The ability of a system to exist continually at a cost, in a universe that evolves in the state of entropy toward the thermodynamic equilibrium of the planet
SUSTAINABILITY
A branch of philosophy that could somehow be systematized, defend, recommend, and identify what right and wrong behavior is
ETHICS
A discipline in philosophy that studies or focuses on the moral relationship among human beings to the value and moral status of the environment, which includes plants and animals.
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
A community of living organisms in conjunctions or in relationship with the non-living components of their specific environment that interact with each other.
THE ECOSYSTEM
Process of all plants that transform into the release of energy ATP. During this process, the light energy of the sun is captured. There is a conversion of water, some mineral and carbon dioxide, and a certain amount of oxygen needed by animals to survive.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
A basic unit of classifying and identifying the taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity.
A SPECIES
A linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species
FOOD CHAIN
The natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological ccommunity
FOOD WEB
