Quiz

• Environmental Science


  it is the systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it. A highly interdisciplinary, integrating natural sciences, social sciences,and humanities in a broad, holistic study of the world around us. It is the foundation is ecology and is more concerned on human impact on the environment.
• Matter


  It is anything that can occupy space and has a mass. Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and Bosh Einstein Condensate are the phases of matter that constitute the arrangement of the structures and properties of atoms.
• Thermodynamics


  It deals with how energy is transferred in natural processes. It deals specifically with the relationships of heat, work, and energy.
• First law of thermodynamics (Law of Conservation)

  States that energy is conserved; that is, it is neither created nor destroyed under normal conditions. Energy may be transformed, for example, from the energy in a chemical bond to heat energy, but the total amount does not change.
• Second law of thermodynamics (Law of Entropy)

  It states that, with each successive energy transfer or transformation in a system, less energy is available. That is, energy is degraded to lower-quality forms, or it dissipates and is lost, as it is used. When you drive a car, for example, the gas's chemical energy is degraded to kinetic energy and heat, dissipating, eventually, to space. The second law recognizes that disorder, or entropy, tends to increase in all-natural systems.
• Biome


  A the community of organisms interacting with one another.
• Freshwater


  Lakes

  Streams

  River

  Ponds
• Marine Ecosystems


  Estuaries

  intertidal zones

  neritic zones

  open ocean
• Estuary


  Where freshwater of a river meets saltwater of the ocean.
• Energy


  provides the force to hold matter together, tear it apart, and move from one place to another.
• Kinetic Energy


  The energy in moving objects
• Potential Energy


  the stored energy, latent and ready to use
• Chemical Energy


  the energy stored in food or carbon compounds
• through photosynthesis & respiration


  how energy is transferred in natural processes
• Ecological Pyramid


  graphical representation of the biomass and bio reproductivity at each trophic level.
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 1948 


  was created to protect and preserve nature in its original form.
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 


  which was created to protect animals and places from human developmental activities.
• Green Revolution in Agriculture 1966

  was initiated to understand the negative impacts of uncontrolled and unregulated use of pesticides and fertilizers on the environment.
• NEPA (1969) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)  


  which aimed to ensure environmental health by negotiation policies and acts.
• Greenpeace 1971 


  a campaign of committed individuals who tried to stop the American Nuclear Weapon test.
• Government


  The best way to solve a problem because of the regulation, the punishments for those who did not follow the policies.
• Environmental ethics


  the discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment.
• Because of life forces processes ems

  Numbers decrease as move up the pyramid becuase of?
• 10 or the 10% rule


  the ecological rule
• Decomposer


  have the job of 'recycling' dead organisms and waste into non-living elements.
• autotrophs - herbivores or omnivores - carnivores or omnivores - decomposers 


  Correct sequence of the tropic level
• autotrophs - herbivores or omnivores - carnivores or omnivores - decomposers 


  Correct sequence of the tropic level
• Temperate Forests


  can be evergreen or deciduous we can group these forests by tree type, which can be broad leaf deciduous (losing leaves seasonally) or evergreen coniferous (cone-bearing)