PG NEW SCI Flashcards
How can we study the impact that Humans have had on the climate
Through an Interdisciplinary approach.
Environmental science
the study of the impacts of human activities on environmental systems
Envrionment
The sum total of all the conditions and living and nonliving factors that surround an organism
What is included in a environment
If there are others of its kind, food sources, and predators that will eat them, the weather, the landscape, and the other aspects of the world it lives in.
Local environment
The immediate surroundings of an organism/human
Environment scale
From the size of a pond to a ocean or mountain range.
Global Environment
sum of all aspects of the Earth
How complicated is the Global Environment
It is extremely complicated
Environmental science
An interdisciplinary science that studies the effect that humans have had on the climate.
What are are disciplines are in Environmental Science
biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, physics, chemistry, human population dynamics, and biological and natural resources.
Environmental science is a __________ __________ discipline
Science based discipline
What does it mean to be a science based discipline
it means that you follow the scientific method
What does the scientific methods
observations, hypothesis testing, field and laboratory research, and other practices
What is a system
A systems is a set of living and/or nonliving components connected in such a way that changes in one part of the system affect other parts
Can usually be done to one system
it can isolated and studied separately from other systems
