Environmental Science

Environmental Science is defined as?

• Study of the environment and the role of organisms in the environment

• the study of the interactions of organisms in an environment

• the study of the environment and how humans impact it

Which are part of 6 levels of classification for organisms?

• Organism

• Biosphere

• biome

• ecology

What are the 3 categories of organisms?

• producers

• omnivores

• consumers

• decomposers

What does it mean for organisms to be interdependent?

• When one part of the food web is gone the ecosystem can crumble

• If one organism becomes extinct another organism will take its place

• Organismal relationship affect overall health of ecosystem

Hunter gatherers...

• used stone tools

• created pollution

• had large civiliations

• used advanced techology

Agricultural Society

• was the beginning of pollution

• used advanced techology

• lived in nomatic tribes

Industrialized society

• utilized new forms of energy like fossil fuels

• created no pollution

• farmed lots of wheat and barley