GEOG 2210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pacific Herring, Agroforestry, Water Cycle
30 Jan 2014
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Ecosystems a community and its members interacting with each other and their nonliving environment. Environment the surroundings in which plants and animals live, affected by various physical factors such as temperature, water, light, and food resources. Biosphere - that part of the earth inhabited by plants and animals, and their interactions with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. Natural capital earth"s natural resources and ecological systems that provide vital-life support services such as flood control. All aspects of the environment used to provide manufactured goods, to secure our quality of life, and to support a range of economic activities such as agriculture and recreation. Pollutants substances that affect the physical, chemical, or biological quality of the earth"s environment. Renewable resources resources such as forests that can be replaced by the environmental processes in a time frame meaningful to humans. Nonrenewable resources resources such as fossil fuels that are finite in supply or replaced so slowly that they are soon depleted.
