Is a place where different things are such as a swampy or hot environment.

A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

Branch of biology concerning interactions among organisms and their biophysical environment, which includes both biotic and abiotic components.

The study of matter, its properties, how and why substances combine or separate to form other substances, and how substances interact with energy.

Is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

Is the study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture that surrounds everyday life.

A social science which deals with systems of governance, and the analysis of political activities, political thoughts, associated constitutions, and political behavior.

The use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings.

Is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.

A habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

The ability of a system to exist constantly at a cost, in a universe that evolves towards thermodynamic equilibrium, the state with maximum entropy.

The maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained in that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.

It is the process of all plants that transform into the release of energy ATP. During this process, the light energy of the sun is captured. Thereis a conversion of water, some mineral and carbon dioxide, and a certain amountof oxygen needed by animals to survive.

is a basic unit of classifying and identifying the taxonomic rank of anorganism, as well as a unit of biodiversity.

A linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species.

The natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

IUCN in 1948

WWF 1960-1970

It is anything that can occupy space and has a mass. Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and Bosh Einstein Condensate are the phases of matter that constitute the arrangement of the structures and properties of atoms.

The study of thermodynamics deals with how energy is transferred in natural processes.

Atoms and molecules cycle endlessly through organisms and their environment, butenergy flows in a one-way path.

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.

the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.

the animals of a particular region, habitat, orgeological period.

an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

are trees that grow in saltwater.

are known in marine ecosystems because of their exceptional biological productivity and their diverse, beautiful organisms—reefs form clusters as colonial animals (coral polyps) that live symbiotically with photosynthetic algae.

are bays where river water meets the sea; hence, there is a mixingof saltwater and freshwater.

are low, narrow, sandy islands that form parallel to a coastline.

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