Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Fifth Edition engages students using current, integrated case studies that provide a context for understanding science and environmental concerns in a brief, 18-chapter text. Jay Withgott and Matt Laposata present the latest understanding of environmental science along with expanded FAQ discussions that address common student misconceptions and with new Data Analysis questions that build quantitative literacy.

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Explanation: For all of human history, fewer than a million people populated the Earth at any...Explanation: A system on Earth can be defined as the interaction of the parts, components, and...Natural selection is a process of evolution in which organisms that are most adapted to their...Explanation: The interaction among species poses threat in the fabric of ecological communities....Explanation: Natural environment plays a very essential role in the economy. It provides various...Explanation: Global human population describes the total number of human living all over the world....Explanation: The idea of global food security arose from the challenges that scientists and policy...Explanation: Increase in the population of the human with their heavy resource consumption putting...Explanation: Biodiversity is defined as the variability among living organisms which comes from all...

Explanation: The environmental health hazards include chemical, biological, physical, and...Explanation: Toxicity is defined as the degree at which a chemical substance harms humans and...Explanation: Earth consists of land, water, rocky material, and air with gases like oxygen, and...Explanation: Mining is used for the extraction of minerals, ores and heavy metals used for a variety...Explanation: Earth has an abundance of water, out of which, 97.5 % of water is present in oceans....Explanation: Earth is the planet ranking third from the Sun. The earth has formed around 4,570...Explanation: The Earth’s surface absorbs solar radiation, as it reaches Earth. The sun emits solar...Explanation: The ultimate source of energy for all the living beings present on Earth is Sun. The...Explanation: Renewable sources of energy contribute a little in the global population. About 22% of...Explanation: As the population of world rises, the production and consumption of material and goods...Explanation: Urban areas are human settlements with high population density and advanced...

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