Environmental science

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Environmental science
Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. It is an interdisciplinary science overlapping the categories in Natural sciences, Engineering sciences and Social sciences. In nature, Environmental science focuses on pollution and degradation of the environment related to human activities and their impact on biodiversity and sustainability. As an interdisciplinary field, environmental science also applies knowledge from economicslaw and social sciences. It can be applied to cyberspace environment also. In nature, Physics is used to understand the flux of material and energy interaction and construct mathematical models of environmental phenomena.  Chemistry is applied to understand the molecular interactions among natural systems.  Biology is fundamental to describing the effects within the plant and animal kingdoms.
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environmental science
Noun
1. the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
(synonym) ecology, bionomics
(hypernym) biology, biological science
(hyponym) paleoecology, palaeoecology
(class) cosmopolitan, widely distributed



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