BIOL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Water Pollution, Environmentalism, Water Cycle
9 Oct 2014
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Biol111 - ecology and the environment: lecture 2: environmental problems. Interdisciplinary study that uses information from physical sciences and social sciences to learn how earth. Biology: aquatic and forest environments are stressed and would need to be studied to understand pollution control and impact. Medical science: impact on health due to poor drinking water. Engineering: creating filtration systems to clean water. Geography: finding new locations for water resources. Environmentalism social movement dedicated to protecting the earth"s life support systems for us and. Ecology and the environment - studies the relationship between organisms, society, the economy and their impact on the environment. The interdisciplinary study that deals with how the earth works and how to solve environmental problems is: Ecology (arising from biology) and earth science (arising from geography/geology) are two of the many disciplinarians that contribute to environmental science. Solar energy direct sunlight and indirect forms of renewable solar energy (ex.
