Environmental Careers
Careers in the environment include ecologist, climate scientist, renewable energy engineer, conservation officer and sustainability manager.
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Careers in the environment include ecologist, climate scientist, renewable energy engineer, conservation officer and sustainability manager.
- Ecologists study ecosystems
- Engineers design clean energy
- Planners create sustainable towns
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Three questions. Score 2 or more to complete the topic.
What is Environmental Careers?
Within Earth & Environmental Science, which covers our planet, its resources and ecosystems, and how people can protect the environment, this topic explains Environmental Careers. Earth and environment topics show how the planet’s systems shape landscapes, climate and life, with models that make these processes visible.
Check that you can explain Environmental Careers in your own words and give one example from everyday life. If you can do that, you have understood the core idea.
Understanding Environmental Careers helps you explain the environment around you and weigh up how people can protect it.
Environmental Careers in detail
The environment offers many careers, such as ecologist, conservation officer, environmental scientist, climate scientist, renewable energy engineer, sustainability consultant, urban planner, water engineer, forester, marine biologist, waste manager, environmental lawyer and policy adviser.
Skills needed include science, data analysis, problem solving, communication and teamwork, and routes include university, apprenticeships and volunteering. Green jobs are growing as economies move toward sustainability. Work can be in the field, laboratory, office or classroom, for governments, businesses and charities.
How the interactive helps you understand Environmental Careers
Click a card to flip it and reveal the answer, then move on to the next one.
Before you change anything, predict the result. Then change one value at a time and check whether your prediction was right. This is a quick way to build a correct mental model of Environmental Careers.
Real-life uses and examples
- Use a diagram of Environmental Careers to describe the steps of a process in order.
- Discuss how human activity changes Environmental Careers, using a named example.
- Explain how Environmental Careers affects the landscape or climate near you.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Describing a process without the timescale it works over.
- Presenting one cause as the only cause of an environmental change.
- Learning the definition without testing it. Use the quiz and the interactive to check that you can apply the idea.
Frequently asked questions about Environmental Careers
What is Environmental Careers?
Careers in the environment include ecologist, climate scientist, renewable energy engineer, conservation officer and sustainability manager.
What are the most important points about Environmental Careers?
The main points are: Ecologists study ecosystems; Engineers design clean energy; Planners create sustainable towns.
Why is Environmental Careers useful?
Understanding Environmental Careers helps you explain the environment around you and weigh up how people can protect it.
How can I practise Environmental Careers?
Open the interactive at the top of this page and change the controls one at a time. Predict the result before each change, then take the three-question quiz. A score of two or more marks the topic as complete on this device.
Which topics are related to Environmental Careers?
Related topics in Earth & Environmental Science include Gaia and Earth Systems, Rivers and Valleys, Natural Cycles: Carbon and Nitrogen.