SCIE 1P50 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ultraviolet, Hectare, John Holdren
9 Oct 2011
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Provides climate stability - provides us the climate we live in. Without our environment we would be fried to death - protects us from ultraviolet radiation. We tend to think of the environment as a collection of commodities we obtain from around the world. But the environment is the very source of our lives and well being. Environment is the source of practically everything. Environment gives us absolutely everything to keep our lifestyle which produces a lot of waste which we feed back to the environment. All the things around us with which we interact: Establish general principles about how the natural world functions. Classi ed thousands of different species and named them. Study of inter-relationships among organisms and their environment. Derived from the greek oikos = home hence ecology is the study of the home-life of organisms. Natural resources = substances and energy sources needed for survival. Nonrenewable natural resources - nite supply; can be depleted.
