Environmental Science

Environmental Science provides high school students an introduction to the study of the natural world and how it is influenced by human activity.  

Students will explore the patterns and processes of Earth and how these are affected by natural and human impacts.  They will study environmental problems that our planet is facing today and various efforts to solve these problems, ultimately understanding the need for a sustainable future. It Includes

• The physical structure of the earth, closed and open systems, ground water, freshwater, water use, and salt water.
• atmosphere composition and atmosphere structure
• biosphere structure, and study ecosystem structure
• The law of limiting factors, population ecology, biotic potential and environmental resistance, and carrying capacity.
• Soil conservation, types of agriculture, and green revolution and genetic engineering.
• How humans use land. They also learn about rangelands, deforestation and its consequences,  and urban and suburban sprawl
• Energy forms and thermodynamic laws,  and energy efficiency. 
• Fossil fuels, including formation and types of fossil fuels, and advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels.
• Major air pollutants, sources of air pollution, and measuring air pollution.
• Types of hazardous waste, environmental risk, bioaccumulation and bio magnification.
• ultraviolet radiation, stratospheric ozone, the effects of ozone depletion, ozone-depleting chemicals, and strategies for reducing ozone depletion.