Flashcards: Environmental science

A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human culture.

Bioassay (commonly used shorthand for biological assay or assessment), or biological standardization is a type of scientific experiment.

The CDP (formerly the "Carbon Disclosure Project") is an organisation based in the United Kingdom which works with shareholders and corporations to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions of major corporations.

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological and information sciences (including ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, zoology, mineralogy, oceanology, limnology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geodesy) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.

Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions.

Environmental health is the branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health.

Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events (anoxia conditions) refer to intervals in the Earth's past where portions of oceans become depleted in oxygen (O2) at depths over a large geographic area.

Environmental engineering science (EES) is a multidisciplinary field of engineering science that combines the biological, chemical and physical sciences with the field of engineering.

The Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energies is the branch of engineering that operates in the areas of Environmental Engineering , Sanitary Engineering and Power Engineering.

Biometeorology is the interdisciplinary field of science that studies the interactions between the biosphere and the Earth's atmosphere on time scales of the order of seasons or shorter (by opposition to bioclimatology).

Bioconcentration is the accumulation of a chemical in or on an organism when the source of chemical is solely water.

Polar ecology is the relationship between plants and animals in a polar environment.