environmental science

Environment

French word ENVIRON

-the complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that act upon

>source of oxygen

>foil of erosion

>food and shelter

What makes up a forest environment?

Science

A Latin word “scientia” meaning knowledge derived from Latin “scire” to know.

Knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method

Environmental science

Multidisciplinary /interdisciplinary academic field that draws on ecology, geology, meteorology, biology, chemistry, engineering and physics to study environmental problems

Ecology

Interrelationship of organisms and their environment

Environmentalism

A way of thinking and a movement of political activism based on common convictions that our natural environment should be protected

Environmentalist

people study environments

Scientific method

A technique for testing ideas with observation. It includes several assumptions and series of interrelated steps.

Observation

The basis of science, may be made through only of the 5 senses or by instrument that measure beyond what we can