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whitewolf

asleep under the juniper bush
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What's the difference between Environmental science and Biology, specifically when describing High School curriculum? Thanx.
 
would environmental science be ecology? It could be geology for all I know, what the description on environmental science class your school has?
 
my guess would be this:

biology: the study of organisms
environmental science: the study of how organisms and their living and non-living environment interact.



But wellcooked is right, it depends on your school, really.
 
It's not in my school, I finished school a long time ago. If anyone heard of Kingsborough HS?... Its really for my job, I have to tutor a girl that's starting to go there this year. So I have absolutely no clue, and neither does she...
 
environmental science is usually a general term for ecology and other earth fields. it is an applied science looking at a system as a whole. biology is a reductionist science.
 
Biology: The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution.

Environmental science: The study of environmental systems (water-ways, soils etc) in relation to the functioning of living organisms and interaction between populations.

That is the idea I have anyway.
 
Thank you!
why would they need to spend the whole year learning ecosystems? I took a course of that for half of semester (extra class), and that seemed fairly enough. Weird schools. I thought bio was required, no? If I could have taken that instead of bio I'd be so much happier as a freshman.
 
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