AP Environmental Science Q&A
1. The environment is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates; the natural world affected by human activity.
2. Environmental science is the study of the interaction between living and nonliving, physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment including their effects on all types of organisms but most often the impact humans have on the environment. Ecology, conservation biology, forestry, soil science, forest technology and physics are related to environmental science.
3. Environmentalism is a theory that views environment rather than heredity as the important factor in the development and especially the cultural and intellectual development of an individual or group; advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especially the movement to control pollution.
4. Natural capital is the air, land, water, living organisms and all the formations of the Earth’s biosphere that provides us with ecosystems goods and services imperative for survival and well-being.
5. A natural resource occurs naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by humanity; in a natural form; anything that people can use which comes from nature; we gather them from nature. EX: air, water, wood, oil, iron, wind energy, coal, hydroelectric energy. A natural/ecosystem service are regularly involved in the provisions of clean drinking water and the decomposition of waste. Natural ecosystem services is split into four categories: provisioning, such as the production of food and water; regulating, such as the control of climate and disease; supporting, such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits.
6. An environmentally sustainable society is a community that is in balance with nature; people in the society do actions that are good for the environment.
7. A developing country is a nation with lower living standards,
2. Environmental science is the study of the interaction between living and nonliving, physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment including their effects on all types of organisms but most often the impact humans have on the environment. Ecology, conservation biology, forestry, soil science, forest technology and physics are related to environmental science.
3. Environmentalism is a theory that views environment rather than heredity as the important factor in the development and especially the cultural and intellectual development of an individual or group; advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especially the movement to control pollution.
4. Natural capital is the air, land, water, living organisms and all the formations of the Earth’s biosphere that provides us with ecosystems goods and services imperative for survival and well-being.
5. A natural resource occurs naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by humanity; in a natural form; anything that people can use which comes from nature; we gather them from nature. EX: air, water, wood, oil, iron, wind energy, coal, hydroelectric energy. A natural/ecosystem service are regularly involved in the provisions of clean drinking water and the decomposition of waste. Natural ecosystem services is split into four categories: provisioning, such as the production of food and water; regulating, such as the control of climate and disease; supporting, such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits.
6. An environmentally sustainable society is a community that is in balance with nature; people in the society do actions that are good for the environment.
7. A developing country is a nation with lower living standards,