ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Syllabus — Government College of Engineering an…
Full syllabus, topics and curated resources for ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu).
Study of ecosystems, natural resources, environmental pollution, social issues, sustainable development, energy resources, and environmental protection legislation.
- Subject code: CET6201
- University: Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Course: BE (2022 onwards)
- Branch: ME
- Semester: 2
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE syllabus
Unit 1: Ecosystems
- Concept of an ecosystem
- Structure and function of an ecosystem
- Producers, consumers and decomposers
- Energy flow in the ecosystem
- Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles
- Ecological succession
- Food chains
- food webs
- ecological pyramids
- Forest ecosystem
- Grassland ecosystem
- Desert ecosystem
- Aquatic ecosystems (river and ocean)
Unit 2: Natural Resources
- Renewable and Non-renewable resources
- Forest resources
- Use and over Exploitation
- deforestation
- effects on forest and tribal people
- Water resources
- Use and over utilization of surface and ground water
- conservation
Unit 3: Environmental Pollution
- Definition, Cause, effects and control measures of different types of pollution
- Air pollution
- Sources
- effects
- control
- air quality standards
- air pollution act
- air pollution measurement
- Effect of air pollution on human beings, animals and materials
- Water Pollution-Sources and impacts
- Soil Pollution-Sources and impacts
- disposal of solid waste
- Greenhouse gases - effect
- acid rain
- Ozone layer depletion
Unit 4: Social Issues and the Environment
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable use of Resources
- Urban problems related to energy
- Growing energy needs
- renewable and nonrenewable energy sources
- use of alternate energy sources
- Land as a resource
- land degradation
- soil erosion
- desertification
- Role of an individual in conservation of natural resources
- Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
- Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act
- Wildlife Protection Act
- Forest Conservation Act