EESA01H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 GREAT DETAILED NOTES
24 Apr 2011
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Our environment is more then just our surroundings: environment is the sum of our surroundings. It includes all of earths: biotic components (living things) biotic constituents = animals, plants, soil, forests, people occupying landscape: abiotic components (nonliving things) abiotic constituents = continents, oceans, clouds, rivers, icecaps. In the most inclusive scene, our environment includes scientific, political, ethical, economical, and social relationships & institutions. I t is the interactions that characterize environment. Environment canada is to preserve and enhance the quality of canada"s natural environment, conserve our renewable resources and protect our water resources. Islands are finite and have limitation in material resources www. notesolution. com. renewable natural resources are natural resources that are relenishable over short periods (wind, wave energy, sunlight: become non-renewable if we use them at a rate that is faster at which they are renewed or replenished. stock-and-flow resources highlight the importance of the balance.
