[ENVS 1000U] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (73 pages long!)

• School: UOIT
• Department: Environmental-Science
• Course: ENVS 1000U
• Professor: Mary Olavson

Document Summary

Consists of both: biotic factors, abiotic factors. Common use of term separates humans from rest of nature. Humans exists within the environment- part of the natural world. Humans depend on a properly functioning planet for our survival. Human actions have brought beneficial changes (longer life spans, etc) Other human actions have brought undesirable changes (environmental problems) Human interactions with our environment are important. Need to understand these interactions to devise sustainable solutions to current problems. Impact 1: human population growth has affected resource availability. Human population has increase to >7 billion. Medical-technological revolutions led to longer healthier lives. Human population growth changes our interaction with each other and the environment. Consumption of resources has risen faster than population growth life has become better: rising consumption amplifies demands made on environment. Renewable resources (e. g. sunlight) cannot be depleted. Resources (e. g. soil. , timber and clean water) are renewable - only if we do not overuse them.