Environment: The Science Behind The Stories Chapters 3 and 4 Notes 2023

Environment - -Consists of all living and nonliving things around us -Environmental Science - -the scientific study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment -natural resources - -The substances and energy sources that we take from our environment and rely on to survive -renewable natural resources - -natural resources that are replenished over short periods -nonrenewable natural resources - -A natural resource that are in finite supply and are formed far more slowly than we use them -ecosystem services - -Processes and the results of those processes that naturally result from the normal functioning of ecological systems and from which human beings draw benefits. -Agricutural Revolution - -The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering -Industrial Revolution - -shift from rural life to an urban society provisioned by the mass production of factory made goods and powered by fossil fuels -fossil fuels - -Non-renewable energy sources such as oil, coal, and natural gas -ecological footprint - -The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population.