Environmental vs Ecology - What's the difference?
environmental | ecology |
Pertaining to one's environment.
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* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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As an adjective environmental
is pertaining to one's environment.As a noun ecology is
the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.environmental
English
Adjective
(-)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}
Derived terms
* environmentallyecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}