Environmental Science Chapter 1

• The ability of Earth’s natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish into the long-term future

• sustainability

• full-cost pricing

• • win-win solutions

• environment

Interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment (draws on engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, ethics)

• environmentalism

• environmental science

• ecology

• earth science

______________is one or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors of their nonliving environment.

• environmentalism

• ecosystem

• ecology

• earth science

A social movement dedicated to sustaining Earth’s life-support system

• environmentalism

• environmental science

• ecology

• earth science

the branch of biology that focuses on how living things and nonliving parts of the environment.

• environmentalism

• environmental science

• ecology

• earth science

A Living thing in the environment that belongs to a species.

• organism

• species

• ecology

• population

It is a group of organisms having a unique set of characteristics that set it apart from other groups.

• organism

• species

• ecology

• population

• Supplies nutrients, directly and indirectly

• • Solar Energy

• • Biodiversity 

• • Nutrient cycling

• Ecosystem

• Cycling of life-giving nutrients/chemicals between organisms and environment.

• • Solar Energy

• • Biodiversity 

• • Nutrient cycling

• Ecosystem

• Which of this is related to full-cost pricing to include environmental and health costs of producing goods/services?

• • Economics

• • Political Science

• • Ethics

• Ecology