1. ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC
PURPOSES
Natural Resource Management
Hai Hoa Nguyen 2015
(PhD – Geography & Env Mgt)
Email: nguyenhaihoa2013vfu@gmail.com
Forestry University of Vietnam
Forest Resource & Environmental Management Faculty
Environmental Disciplines
Week 3
Part IESP_LO3
3. Ecology /ɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/: is studied at different levels: individual
(organism), population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.
BIOMES
Biomes /ˈbaɪ.əʊm/: different kinds of ecosystems (life zones)
are associated with different physical conditions, and include
different kinds of communities that have become adapted to
those physical conditions & each other.
Ecosystem /ˈiː.kəʊˌsɪs.təm/: including all the living things in
an area & the way they affect/react each other and their
environment.
4. Tundra: very large
area of land in
Northern Asia, North
America & Northern
Europe. It is cold, trees
do not grow & ground
below the surface is
permanently frozen.
Boreal forest (Taiga): Existing
as a nearly continuous belt of
coniferous trees across North
America and Eurasia (connected
with Europe & Asia considered
as a unit).
Chaparral: A shrub-land plant
community found primarily in US
(California) & Mexico (Baja
California Peninsula).
BIOMES
6. Sample 1
Sample 3
Sample 2
A linear sequence of links in a
food web starting from a
species (producers) and ends at
a species (decomposers).
What is the food chain?
7. What is the food web?
Sample 3
Sample 1
Sample 2
8. Sample 1
Trophic level of an organism is the
position it occupies in a food.
Trophic level
Sample 2
