Environmental Science : Student Edition

This fourth edition of BIOZONE's Environmental Science combines the very best features of a light textbook with the utility of a workbook. This innovative hybrid, known as an interactive worktext, eliminates the need for a separate textbook, offering an all-in-one educational resource. Its full color, highly visual content brings the subject to life in an engaging and thought-provoking manner. The four themes: Earth’s Systems, Living World, Global Resources, and Global Change introduce students to our planet’s physical and biological systems and the ways in which humans interact with them. This new edition includes engaging, real-world data on subjects relevant to students, such as fast fashion and mass travel. A chapter on climate change concludes the book and addresses the rapidly emerging and dynamic changes observed in the global environment. While many of the problems caused by human exploitation of Earth’s resources are highlighted, hope for the future features throughout via content that describes ways in which human induced issues can be mitigated.Features and benefits:• Highly visual, full color content featuring the very latest scientific data. • Key ideas provide a main focus for each activity.• Glossary encourages scientific literacy .• QR codes link to interactive 3D models and real time data sources.• A dedicated chapter supports development of math and science skills. • Assessment tasks conclude each chapter.