Yvonne L.

Inguito January 17, 2022

GE15: ACTIVITY 1
Activity No. 1. Now that you have known the most essential terms in the study of environmental science. Let
us try to check your understanding of these terms. In the space provided, write the terms, being asked in the
following statements:
1. It refers to the systematic study of our environment and our place in it.
ANSWER: Environmental Science

2. An interdisciplinary science integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in broad
study of the world around us.
ANSWER: Environmental Science

3. The circumstances or conditions that surrounds an organisms or group of organisms or the complex
of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community.
ANSWER: Environment

4. The process of producing knowledge methodically and logically.

ANSWER: Science

5. The set of components, or parts that function together as a whole.

ANSWER: System

6. Refers to systems that receive inputs from surroundings and produce outputs that leave the system.
ANSWER: Open System

7. It is refers to the ability of a system to exists constantly at a cost in a universe that evolves towards
thermodynamic equilibrium.
ANSWER: Sustainability

8. It is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings and moral status
of the environment and its non-human contents.
ANSWER: Environmental Ethics

9. The temporary change in environmental conditions resulted to a pronounced change in an ecosystem.

ANSWER: The Disturbance

10. Refers to the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that constitutes a chemical element.
ANSWER: Atom