ENVS 170A1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hydrogeology, Southern Metropolitan Region, Lead

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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, non-renewable: resources that are limited by time and stable systems (i. e air, solar energy, wind) 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 and asks questions of some phenomenon. The scientist formulates a hypothesis, a statement that attempts to answer the question.