Environmental Science Semester 1 Questions and Answers 2023

Biodiversity - -The number and variety of species that live in an area -Ecological footprint - -Shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country -Sustainability - -The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive -Hunter-gatherers - -People who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains -Compositional layers of geosphere - -Crust, mantle, core -Physical layers of atmosphere - -Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer/inner cores -Layers of atmosphere - -Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere -Radiation - -Transference of energy as electromagnetic waves -Conduction - -Transference of energy in the form of heat from a warmer object to a colder object with physical contact -Convection - -Transference of energy that takes place when variations in temperature move the matter making up air -Greenhouse effect - -Process in which gree