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MODERN CAREERS

|I |1 |Natural resources (products that nature gives us, like oil, gas, fresh water, etc.) have been used without taking|
| | |care of them, but today peoplehave begun to worry about the rational use of these resources. Nowadays, there are|
| | |some careers that show the modern preoccupation with the Earth’s ecological problems. Presentprofessional |
| | |education tends to include three main environmental areas: ecology, forestry and oceanography. |
| |5 |Ecology (branch of biology thatstudies living things and their relation to their environment) is the area where |
| | |ecologists analize how ecosystems work and how people can keep these systems working properly. They studythe |
| | |environment and how it is damaged by dangerous chemicals that pollute the air, the rivers and the land. |
| | |The second area, forestry, is closelyrelated to ecology. Forestry (science of planting and caring for forests) |
| | |is studied by foresters. They have to know very much about tree and animal growth and behavior, and aboutwater, |
| |10 |soil and air. |
| | |Forests give us an important naturalresource: wood. They also provide places where people can enjoy nature. |
|II | |The last area, oceanography (science that studies the ocean’s ecosystems) is very important because it studies|
| | |one of the major sources of food and natural resources. Oceanographers (people who study the ocean ecosystems) |
| | |have so many things to consider that they aredivided into two main branches: geo-oceanographers who study the |
| |15 |ocean floor and all its particular behavior such as undersea earthquakes and volcanoes and bio-oceanographers who|...