ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Education
Environmental Science

JHON REY ARRIOLA RODEO Dulangan, Magdiwang, Romblon

BSED III- Block 6 SCIENCE 09077984661

Module 1
SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

DO THIS
I. Choose five objects in your house. Observe your objects closely, and list the
resources that comprise them. For example, a pencil is made of wood, graphite,
paint, aluminum, rubber, and pumice. Classify the resources you have observed as
nonrenewable or renewable.

OBJECTS RESOURCES RENEWABLE OR NONREWABLE

Sand Renewable
Glass Soda Renewable
Limestone Nonrenewable
Water Hydrogen Renewable
Oxygen Renewable
Cellulose Renewable
Plastic Coal Nonrenewable
Bottle Natural Gas Nonrenewable
Salt Nonrenewable
Crude Oil Nonrenewable
Cotton Renewable
Wheat Renewable
Straw Renewable
Sugar Cane Waste Renewable
Flax Renewable
Paper Wood Renewable
Bamboo Renewable
Linen Renewable
Rag Renewable
Hemp Renewable
Fiber from Wood Renewable
Recycled Paper Renewable
Plastic Nonrenewable
Foam Nonrenewable
Shoes Rubber Renewable
Synthetics Nonrenewable
Textiles Nonrenewable
Leathers Renewable
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I. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. What percentage of the resources you observed are renewable? What
percentage of the resources are nonrenewable?
Seventy-Five (70%) are renewable resources like wood, cotton, hydrogen, carbon,
etc. and twenty-five (30%) is non-renewable resources including limestone, coal, natural gas,
salt, crude oil, etc.
2. Hypothesize the origin of three of the resources you observed. If time permits,
research the origin of the resources you chose to find out if you were correct.

 LIMESTONE
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of the mineral calcite and
comprising about 15% of the Earth’s sedimentary crust. It is a basic building block of the
construction industry (dimension stone) and a chief material from which aggregate, cement,
lime and building stone are made. 71% of all crushed stone produced in the U.S. is either
limestone or dolomite. As a source for lime, it is used to make paper, plastics, glass, paint,
steel, cement, carpets, used in water treatment and purification plants and in the processing of
various foods and household items (including medicines) The time it takes
Florida's limestone to regenerate far surpasses the amount of time that it can be used
thus limestone is categorized as a non-renewable resource.
-https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/minerals-database/limestone/
 SAND
Sand is generally known as loose, gritty particles of worn or disintegrated rock
usually deposited along shores of water bodies, in river beds, or desert dunes. Geologists
define sand more specifically as a natural loose, granular material made of separate mineral
or rock particles from 0.0625 to 2.00 millimeters (mm) in size. Quartz sands, at least those in
unconsolidated deposits, can be considered a renewable, even rapidly renewable resource in
certain cases (Federal Register, 1995, p. 50724). Most people do not consider minerals as
renewable but there are special cases in which certain resources do reform after mining. Sand
comes from many locations, sources, and environments. Sand forms when rocks break down
from weathering and eroding over thousands and even millions of years. Rocks take time to
decompose, especially quartz (silica) and feldspar.
-https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m743258
 NATURAL GAS –
300-400 million years ago, the remains of tiny sea plants and animals sank to the
bottom of the oceans, where they were buried by sediment that turned into rock. Over the
years, the layers of rock became thousands of feet thick, putting the energy-rich plant and
animal matter under a lot of pressure. Eventually, the pressure and heat changed this organic
mixture into oil (petroleum) and natural gas. Natural gas became trapped in the rock layers –
much like water is trapped in a wet sponge. Natural gas is a non-renewable fossil fuel formed
from the remains of tiny sea plants and animals that died 300-400 million years ago.
Approximately 90% of natural gas is composed of methane, but it also contains other gases
such as propane and butane.
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Environmental Science

-https://www.solarschools.net/knowledge-bank/non-renewable-energy/natural-gas

ANALYSIS
DIRECTIONS. Answer the following questions using at least 50 words.
1. Why is environmental science an interdisciplinary science?
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary science because it involves many fields
(disciplines) of study and many different sciences are needed to understand the interactions of
different parts of the environment including Biology- the study of living organisms; Earth
Science, the study of Earth’s nonliving and planet; Physics-the study of matter and energy;
Chemistry- the study of chemicals and their interactions and Social sciences- study of human
populations.
2. Explain how environmental problems can be local, regional, or global. Give one
example of each.
Environmental problems can be local, regional, or global based on the size of area
they directly affect. A local problem may be a factory or waste disposal that releases water,
land and air pollution in a neighborhood. A regional problem might be contamination of a
river that many cities depend on for drinking water. A global problem might be releasing of
greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
3. Fossil fuels are said to be non- renewable resources, yet they are produced by
the Earth over millions of years. By what time frame are they considered
nonrenewable?
Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because a human lifetime is the
timeframe used to evaluate the replacement rate of resources. Fossil fuels take millions of
years to form, and humans consume them much faster than they are formed. According to the
National Geography Society the time period that fossils fuels formed is about 360-300
million years.

APPLICATION
DIRECTIONS. Answer the following questions using at least 50 words.
1. Explain how hunter-gatherers affected the environment in which they lived.
Hunter-gatherers affect the environment in many ways, they changed habitat to obtain
food, introduced new plants to areas and in some areas overharvested plants and animals.
They destroyed environments by setting fires to prevent the growth of trees and by
overhunting that lead to the disappearance of some large mammal species.
2. Give an example on how the following events change the environment.
A. AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
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In agricultural revolution the human populations grow at an unprecedented rate. One

of the effects of the agricultural revolution was the conversion of forest land into agricultural
areas. This process removes the native plants and replaced them with crops and domesticated
animals. Then, replacing forest with farmland on a large scale can cause soil loss, floods, and
water shortages.
B. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The Industrial Revolution introduced many positive changes in our community
because agricultural productivity increased, and sanitation, nutrition, and medical care vastly
improved. In factories, the large-scale production of goods became less expensive than the
local production of handmade goods. On the farm, machinery reduced the amount of land and
human labor needed to produce food. With fewer people producing their own food, the
populations in urban areas steadily grew.
However, the Industrial Revolution also introduced many new environmental
problems such as pollution from industry and accelerating habitat destruction.
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REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS
Encircle the emoji that reflects your feelings towards the topic of the module. Below
it, write about what you feel about the topic. Take a picture of this page and send to your
instructor.

Environment is everything around us. In this module, I learned a lot about this
topic because environment is not what you see but more than. It is a complex web of
relationships that connects us with the world we live in. Environmental science is the study of
the impact of humans on the environment. They have other fields that contribute to the
foundation of environmental science including biology, earth science, physics, chemistry and
social science. To understand and solve environmental problems is the major goals of
environmental science
After I read the content of this module, I felt sad because humans are the first primary
cause of problems in our environment. One way that humas can affect the environment is
through habitat destruction. Based on the lesson, hunter gatherers destroyed environments by
setting fires to prevent the growth of trees and by overhunting that lead to the disappearance
of some large mammal species. These effects can be very bad on the environment. Then,
Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution also has a great impact in changing the
environment they convert forest land into agricultural areas that cause soil loss, floods, and
water shortages. The Industrial Revolution introduced many positive changes in our
community because agricultural productivity increased, and sanitation, nutrition, and medical
care vastly improved but also introduced many new environmental problems such as
pollution from industry and accelerating habitat destruction.
Destruction in our environment can’t control nowadays. There’s a lot of natural
disasters happened and everyone suffering on it because humans are not responsible on the
resources and they don’t know the limitations on it. God creates the world perfectly but when
the times go by, changes happen. The future also depends on such resources. The mother
earth has given enough for all to satisfy minimum wants but not enough to utilize. Hence,
responsibility should be for all human being for an equitable use of natural resources for
sustainable life styles of all in this mother earth.