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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
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What is the Biosphere?
• Zone of life, where life exists
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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 sun’s 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)