What is Environmental Science

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What is Environmental Science?

• Many people
• Scientists non-scientists
• Decisions Our role on the Earth

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Who are the people involved?

• Scientists Non-Scientists
• Biologists Engineer
• Chemists Politician
• Meteorologists Doctors
• Geoscientist Engineers

3
What is the Biosphere?

• Zone of life, where life exists

4
What are the Earth Systems the Biosphere depends
on?

• Lithosphere minerals
• Atmosphere gasses
• Hydrosphere water

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What supplies the energy to our Earth systems?

• The sun solar energy

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What does the suns energy do to our systems?

• Makes them circulate

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What is a biome?

• Large geographic region with shared
  characteristics that allow distinct plant life

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What are the two features used to characterize
each biome?

• Climate
• Soil

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Seven Biomes

• Tundra Very cold, permafrost
• Desert very hot, low humidity
• Tropical Rainforest very wet, hot
• Grasslands- Temperate, prairie dog,bison
• Tropical Savannah lion, zebra
• Taiga Conifers pine trees
• Temperate Deciduous Forest- our biome

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What is difference between abiotic and biotic?

• Living vs. non-living

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Biotic Items

• Predator
• Competition
• Populations
• Plants
• Fungus (fungi)