Conservation, study of the loss of Earth’s biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire …

Conservation - Habitat Management, Restoration, Preservation: Once protected, areas must often be managed in order to maintain the threatened species within them. Management may involve the …

Conservation law, in physics, a principle that states that a certain physical property (that is, a measurable quantity) does not change in the course of time within an isolated physical system. In …

Conservation is the protection of things found in nature. It requires the sensible use of all Earth’s natural resources: water, soil, minerals, wildlife, and forests. People…

Mar 11, 2026 · Conservation of energy, principle of physics according to which the energy in a closed system remains constant. Energy is not created or destroyed but merely changes forms. For …

Feb 18, 2026 · Conservation of momentum, general law of physics according to which the quantity called momentum that characterizes motion never changes in an isolated collection of objects; that …

Energy, in physics, the capacity for doing work. It may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, or various other forms. There are, moreover, heat and work—i.e., energy in the …

Conservation of linear momentum, general law of physics according to which the quantity called momentum that characterizes motion never changes in an isolated collection of objects; that is, the …

A chemical reaction is a process in which one or more substances, the reactants, are converted to one or more different substances, the products. Substances are either chemical elements or compounds. …

Conservation - Protecting Species, Habitats, Biodiversity: For species that are hunted or collected, direct protection may be an essential conservation tool. National laws, such as the Endangered Species …