What is the importance of environmental science

Variety of substances and energy sources that we take from the environment and use

Three main goals of environmental science

surroundings or conditions in which an organism operates

Deals with organisms and nonliving components of

Substances that can be replenished

Important Hierarchy in the level of organization in nature

Biotics of Ecology

Living things are interdependent w/ one another w/ their surroundings

Everything in nature changes// materials undergo cyclic changes

type of environment that man creates the environment conditions for environment to adjust

Ecology Ambiotic factors

science of human acts w/ reference to right or wrong

Value of ethics: worth of objects in its own right

Ethical Position that is a human-centered morality

Environmental justice: Enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution

Ethical Position: nonliving things, species and natural processes have moral understanding and intrinsic value

Ethical Position: Best to protect nature for human needs

Ethical Position: all & only living beings specifically have moral understanding and intrinsic value

Ethic's Abiotic: Sun is the primary source

Ethic's Aboptic: Daily and seasonal changes products of temperature and changes because of sunlight

Environmental Justice does the specific act which the body under the law is required

Environmental Justice based on sustainable development

Occurs when one organism kills and eats the other organisms as the prey

Occurs when two organisms do every mean possible mean to obtain the same limited resource

Different species compete for the limited resource

same species compete for the limited resource

also known as saprophytes

a symbiotic relationship where one organism lives or another organism where it derives its sustenance

Symbiotic relationship involves both species to benefit

Passage of energy from one trophic level to the next

Hierarchy that consists of the whole earth

Ecological relationship that one organism benefits but the other is unaffected

Where each organism is likely to be a food source for several different organisms