ENVS 170A1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Land Ethic, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecocentrism
30 Sep 2016
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Study the slides from class, assigned readings, and materials from group discussions. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. The social justice movement that has been incorporated with environmental studies but still does not explain all of environmental science. What disciplines are involved in es? ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, zoology, mineralogy, oceanology, limnology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geodesy. What are natural resources: renewable: resources that are replenishable naturally in the environment (i. e air, solar energy, wind, non-renewable: resources that are limited by time and stable systems (i. e coal, minerals, metals,plants) The environmental impact of a person or population; calculates the biologically productive land and water. A systematic process for learning about the world and testing our understanding of it. A scientist makes an observation asks questions of some phenomenon.
