IN A NUTSHELL Activity No. 4. Studying the environment and its components requires a deeper understanding of the core areas of environmental science. This involves understanding the influence of human dimensions as well as the natural phenomena that resulted in different alterations of the natural ecosystems, which eventually creates threats and danger both the biological, physical, and chemical components of an ecosystem. Also, this includes the analysis and understanding of how humanmade and natural components react with one another. Based on the definitions and the essential elements in the study of environmental and the learning exercises that you have done, please feel free to indicate your arguments or lessons learned below. 1. Different types of elements, whether naturally present or human-induced, have implications for biological safety as these elements tend to persist in the environment due to its non-biodegradable nature. Since it continues, it poses threats to human health as well as security and food safety. 2. The disease is considered an environmental response or an imbalance within an ecosystem. This signifies that the carrying capacity of the environment has been reached which makes a particular ecosystem unable to function very well that resulted in the or reduce the ability to assimilate pollutants and recover. YOUR TURN 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10