Science and Sustainability: An Introduction to Environmental Science Exam questions and answers

Science and Sustainability: An Introduction to Environmental Science Exam questions and answers Describe the field of environmental science. - The scientific study of how the natural world works, how the environment has an effect on people, as well as how people have an effect on our environment. Compare renewable and nonrenewable resources, and explain the importance of natural resources and ecosystem services to our lives. - Renewable resources are natural resources that are replenished/reused over short periods of time, while nonrenewable resources have an infinite supply, while forming slower than people use them. Natural resources and ecosystem services help us in that they provide us with services (the purification of air and water, climate control, pollination of plants, and cycling nutrients), all things that humans are not able to survive without.