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gas to plasma

ionization

. In many parts of the world, mosquitoes carry a disease called ,

malaria

These chemicals react with sunlight to produce smog, a thick fog or haze of air pollution.

nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrocarbons.

generates solutions for everyday life and helps us to answer the great mysteries of the universe

Science

a systematic guide to get how the physical world works by observations, measurements, and experiments

Scientific Method

Particles are packed closely together

Solids

a unit that describes the masses of individual atoms and molecules

atomic mass unit (u)

comes from the Greek word for "north," reflecting the fact that boreal forests occur mostly in the Northern Hemisphere

boreal

When gasoline is burned to power cars and trucks, it produces

carbon monoxide

a colorless, odorless gas.

carbon monoxide

Global warming causes

climate change

is characterized by permafrost, a layer of permanently frozen subsoil. During the short, cool summer, the ground thaws to a depth of a few centimeters and becomes soggy and wet. In winter, the topsoil freezes again.

Tundra

plasma to gas

deionization

It comes from burning fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas

air pollution

was once commonly used to kill insects, especially mosquitoes. I

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)

The Three E's of Sustainability

environment, economy, and equity

these elements have formed the basis for disaggregating and elaborating sustainability

environment, economy, and equity

Examples of Nature Loss

fishing, hunting and logging

is when the sun's rays penetrate the atmosphere, but when that heat is reflected off the surface cannot escape back into space

greenhouse effect

carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide.

greenhouse gases

a receives more seasonal rainfall than deserts but less than tropical dry forests, tropical savannas, or grasslands, are characterized by a cover of grasses.

Tropical Savanna

is a major contributor to pollution of rivers and streams near coal mines.

. Acid mine drainage (AMD)

are non-living components, physically and chemically present and is prevailing in the ecosystem, they may be life-less but they contain the essential substances that provide balance to the survival of the biotic factors.

Abiotic Factors

refer to the non-living components of an ecosystem, such as temperature, water, sunlight, soil, air, and minerals.

Abiotic factors

can kill all the trees in a forest. It can also devastate lakes, streams, and other waterways. When lakes become acidic, fish can't survive

Acid rain

is a major environmental risk to health and is estimated to cause approximately 2 million premature deaths worldwide per year.

Air pollution

are released from both natural and anthropogenic sources.

Air pollution emissions

are organisms that are capable of producing their own food, they are self-nourishing organism capable of absorbing solar energy to make their own food through the

Autotrophs

a nineteenth-century Swedish physicist. research dealt with light being emitted by glowing objects, including the sun.

Anders Jonas Ångström

deals with the animal population,, their changes, behavior and their relationship to the environment.

Animal Ecology

Industrial pollution, cities pollution/urbanization, and agricultural pollution. Caused by activates near urban and industrial areas. Mostly, pollutants are concentrated and hazardous

Anthropogenic Activities

He also discovered sperm cells, blood cells, protists, and microscopic nematodes.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

He was made one amongst the primarily recorded observations of bacteria when he studied the plaque from his teeth and also the teeth of several others. He noticed "animalcules" swimming within the saliva sample.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

is best known for locating bacteria and creating quite 500 simple microscopes.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Natural Ecosystems are basically classified into two major types:

Aquatic Ecosystem Terrestrial Ecosystem

s are natural regions tormented by man's interferences. They're artificial lakes, reservoirs, townships, and cities

Artificial Ecosystems

states that all matter is composed of atoms

Atomic Theory

is the ecology of individual organisms

Autecology

distinct ecological communities of plants and animals living together in a particular climate

Biome

- all the organisms and the part of Earth where they exist

Biosphere

are living organism, everything that contains life, and is dependent to an abiotic factor or to another biotic factor

Biotic Factors

is common on the northern edge, Winters are bitterly cold, but summers are mild and long enough to allow the ground to thaw.

Boreal Forest

the animal-dependent organisms that mainly feeds specifically on animals.

Carnivores

He described 4,300 species of animals in his 1735 book "Systema Naturae" and 5,000 species of plants in his 1737 book, "Geenera Plantarum".

Carolus "Carl" Linnaeus

classified living organisms as being from either the plant or animal

Carolus "Carl" Linnaeus

He then turned to write On the Origin of Species by Means of action or the Preservation of Favoured Races within the Struggle for all times, published in 1859.

Charles Darwin

The numerous observations that he made aboard in the voyage of the HMS Beagle, he formulated a theory of species change, he termed descent with modification through the first means of survival of the fittest.

Charles Darwin

was best known for his work establishing the evolution by means of action.

Charles Darwin

the ability of a substance to combine with or change into one or more other substances

Chemical Properties of Matter

- It aims to boost human welfare through the protection of natural capital).

Environmental Sustainability

is the study of the interactions between physical, chemical and biological components of the Earth's natural environment

Environmental science

strive to understand past and present environmental processes so that reliable and scientifically based predictions can be made about the future.

Environmental science

studies the connections between the planet, its air, its water and its living organisms.

Environmental science

refers to changes in weather patterns and growing seasons around the world. I

Climate change

Which include rain, temperature, light, wind, humidity etc.

Climatic Factors

a group of similar or dissimilar species together under more or less similar environmental condition.

Community

It is a substance formed when two or more elements are chemically joined.

Compounds

changes a gas to liquid.

Condensation

are probably home to at least a quarter of the entire biological diversity of the oceans, a seemingly limitless number of species, and serve as some of the most beautiful habitats in the world.

Coral Reefs

are characterized by high biodiversity and the structures created byinvertebrates that live in warm, shallow waters within the photic zone of the ocean.

Corals Reefs

reproduce rapidly, creating a harmful algal bloom (HAB).

Cyanobacteria

changes a gas to a solid

Deposition

are biomes where the Ocean meets Fresh Water that occurs where a source of fresh water, such as a river, meets the ocean.

Estuaries

changes a liquid to a gas.

Evaporation

e is defined as having annual precipitation of less than 25 centimeters. Many undergo extreme temperature changes during the course of a day, alternating between hot and cold. The organisms in this biome can tolerate the extreme conditions.

Desert

are decomposers that feed upon the waste products and dead remains of other organisms.

Detritivores

"Abandoning economic process isn't an option", but sustainable development is over just economic process

Economic sustainability

- a community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment

Ecosystem

Which include soil, pH, topography minerals etc.

Edaphic Factors

is a pure substance which cannot be broken down by chemical means, consisting of atoms which have identical numbers of protons in their atomic nuclei

Elements

Matter Exists in two Chemical forms

Elements and Compounds

Air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and physical pollution. Caused by human activities, example: burning coal and fossil fuel

Environmental Elements

changes a liquid to a solid.

Freezing

It Can be compressed

Gas

fills the shape and volume of the container in which it sits

Gas

fly in all directions at great speeds. They are so far apart that the attractive forces between them are insignificant.

Gas

is the long-term warming of the planet's overall temperature.

Global warming

He stated that it is a multidisciplinary science which aims to deal with many environmental problems.

Haeckel

a German Zoologist first described Ecology as separate discipline in 1886.

Haeckel

the plant eating organisms.

Herbivores

are consumer; they obtain their energy to survive by consuming other organisms. They are classified into several categories:

Heterotrophs

Philosophy and Ethics.

Humanities

form when atoms loss or gain electrons.

Ions

The field of Environmental Science is divided into 3 main goals:

Learning Understand Determine

flow easily around one another. They are kept from flying apart by attractive forces between them

Liquid

Fixed volume, but take the shape of the container in which they sit

Liquids

Not much space between the particles, slides and flows with each other easily

Liquids

is anything that has mass and takes up space.

Matter

changes a solid to a liquid

Melting

committed to achieving a collection of eight measurable goals that range from halving extreme poverty and hunger to promoting gender equality and reducing child mortality, by the target date of 2015.

Millennium Declaration

Biology, Chemistry, and Geology

Natural Sciences

is the most direct causes of global warming, biodiversity loss are habitat change, direct exploitation

Nature Loss

has moist air from the Pacific Ocean provides abundant rainfall to this biome. The forest is made up of a variety of conifers, ranging from giant redwoods, along the coast of northern California.

Northwestern Coniferous

Is the most diverse biome; it is categorized into different zones based on how far light reaches into the water. E

Ocean

poses a serious threat to marine life and to the oceanderived goods and services that we depend on.

Ocean Acidification

the organisms where apex predators belongs, they consume mostly all potentially energy giving organisms. Example: Human, Bears, Hippopotamus

Omnivores

characteristics that can be observed or measured without changing the sample's composition.

Physical Properties of Matter

eats the small organisms that drift in the water. They are herbivores and consume primarily phytoplankton or any suspended animals. Examples: Whale Sharks, Corals, Sponges, and some jelly fish.

Planktivores

deals with the relationships of plants and their environment.

Plant Ecology

Made up of atoms in which some or all of the electrons have been stripped away and positively charged nuclei, called ions, roam freely.

Plasma

Often thought of as a subset of gases, but behaves very differently

Plasma

is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment.

Pollution

all of the individuals of a species that live in the same area

Population

can also help create a fertile environment for cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae.

Runoff

It is simple means, meeting our own needs without compromising the flexibility of the future generations to fulfil their own needs

SUSTAINABILITY

e is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Science

Geography, Economics, and Political Science

Social Sciences

addresses social and economic improvement that protects the environment and supports equality, and so the economy and society and also the ecological system are mutually dependent

Social sustainability

arranged in regular, repeating patterns. They are held firmly in place but can vibrate within a limited area.

Solid

Fixed shape and volume

Solids

Not much space between the particles and little movement

Solids

changes a solid to a gas

Sublimation

is the ecology of groups of organisms

Synecology

is primarily defined by its biota. A larger scale of habitat that offers a better survival rate on different organisms; dependent on climate

TERRESTRIAL BIOMES

is characterized by a rich mix of grasses and underlain by some of the world's most fertile soils

Temperate Grassland i

are characterized by a semiarid climate and a mix of shrub communities and open woodlands

Temperate Woodland and Shrub land

contain a mixture of deciduous and coniferous (koh-NIF-ur-us) trees. These forests have cold winters that halt plant growth for several months. In autumn, the deciduous trees shed their leaves.

Temperate forests

demand nothing short of a transformation of the financial, economic and political systems that govern our societies today to guarantee the human rights of all.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

was launched in 2015 to end poverty and set the world on a path of peace, prosperity and opportunity for all on a healthy planet.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

galvanized a process to develop a brand new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which can persevere the momentum generated by the MDGs and fit into a worldwide development framework beyond 2015.

The Global Consultation of Sustainable Development Goals

grows in places where rainfall is highly seasonal rather than year-round. During the dry season, nearly all the trees drop their leaves to conserve water.

Tropical Dry Forests

a home to more species than all other land biomes combined. The leafy tops of tall trees - extending up to 70 meters above the forest floor - form a dense covering called a canopy

Tropical Rain Forest

looks muddy, smells bad, and has garbage floating in it.

Water Pollution

When air pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide mix with moisture, they change into?

acids

change the atmosphere's natural composition, limiting its ability to produce lifesufficient surface temperatures

air pollutants

At the very high temperatures of stars, atoms lose their electrons. The mixture of electrons and nuclei that results is the

plasma

Atoms themselves are composed of

protons, neutrons, and electrons.

can create a toxic environment for aquatic life

runoff

explains how organisms gain and loss energy by consuming one another

trophic level


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