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AP Environmental Science Chapter 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

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All external conditions, factors, matter, and energy, living and non-living, that affect any living organism or other specified system.

environmental science

Interdisciplinary study that uses information and ideas from the physical science, with those from the social science and humanities, to learn how nature works, how we interact wit the environment, and how we can help deal with environmental problems.

Biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment; study of the structure and function of nature.

Group of similar organisms, and for sexually reproducing organisms, they are a set of individuals that can mate and produce fertile offspring. Every organism is a member of a certain species.

One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and wit the chemical and physical factors making up their nonliving environment.