Developed by Jane Heinze-Fry with assistance from G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: CONCEPTS AND CONNECTIONS (For assistance in creating your own concept maps, see the website for this book.)

studies interrelationships of

provide interact with Connections strongly influencing

Ecosystems Human Systems environmental quality
consist of Negative Connections
develop
meet needs and wants through through Strongly Positive Connections
function through undergo
differing Moderately Positive Connections

Matter Energy Worldviews

Communities Change
Cycling Flow

consist of between primarily through guide

from

Nonliving Living Population Dynamics

Populations Sunlight Succession
(Abiotic) (Biotic) Economics/Politics
Evolution

consist of includes includes

influence
Producers
Physical Factors Consumers
Organisms
Chemical Factors Decomposers Societies
consist of
affect development of
Resources
may be may be
include
made of
Unsustainable Sustainable
Matter Energy
Resources Resources

may be may be Populations

(size, density)
may
Nonliving Living Renewable Nonrenewable may
direct sun fossil fuel
are
wind nuclear affect
may be consist of biomass quality
flowing water Exceed
carrying capacity of Stabilize Decline
Potentially
Nonrenewable
Renewable
Land Systems Aquatic Systems
includes includes deserts oceans
grasslands lakes
forests streams negatively affect positively affect
wetlands Environment/
Minerals Air Water Soil Human Health

provide affected by
strategies of

Food
Resources Biodiversity can sustain
Ecosystem Services genes
nutrient cycling species Ecosystem Use Resource Use Polluting
primarily include can decrease
pest control ecosystems
determined waste purification
by genetic material includes includes includes
Crops Livestock Fish

depend on
depletes Waste Waste Air Doing Pollution Pollution
Degradation Management Preservation Throwaway Nothing Control Prevention
Management Reduction Water
Climate Pest Control Soil
leading to
may be

Loss of Climate Stratospheric Unacceptable

Chemical
Biological Biodiversity Change Ozone Depletion Health Risk
(pesticides)
affects
Map 1. Overview
Map 2. Cultural Changes
Map 3B. Complex Systems: Structures and Behaviors
 pollution

Map 3C. Matter and Energy Resources

Map 4B. Nutrient Cycles
Map 5. Evolution and Biodiversity: Origins, Niches, and Adaptation
Map 7. Aquatic Ecology
Map 8. Community Processes: Species Interactions and Succession
Map 10. Mineral and Soil Resources
Map 11. Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health
Map 12. Human Population: Growth, Demography, and Carrying Capacity
Map 13. Food Resources
Map 15. Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Map 16. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Map 17. Air Pollution
Map 18. Climate Change and Ozone Loss
Map 20. Pest Control
Map 21. Solid and Hazardous Wastes
Map 22. Sustaining Wild Species
Map 23B. Sustaining Ecosystems: Deforestation, Biodiversity, and Forest Management
 environmental
indicators

GPI

Map 25. Economics and Environment

Map 27. Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability