PPT-Human Impact on Ecosystems

Pollution Conservation Waste Management 1 Pollution Pollution is a ny human addition contamination to a habitat or the environment that leaves it less able to sustain life It is the most harmful human impact and affects air fresh water sea soil and land. By Renee Swank. In this activity you will learn all about the types of ecosystem. You can read all of the material and watch a short video on ecosystems. After you have read the material and watched the video, you can take the short quiz to see how much you learned!!. GEOSS Symposium: The Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing. 16 November 2009. Anthony C. Janetos, Director. Joint Global Change Research Institute. Chair, GOFC-GOLD. Outline. The context of ecosystem services. Biology Stage 1. Biology Stage 3. Chapter . 5 & 6. Biology ATAR Year 11. Chapter . 6. Keywords. Human impact. Urbanisation. Agriculture. Habitat destruction. Habitat fragmentation. Disruption of water flow. . Table of Contents. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Section 2: . Biomes. Chapter: Ecosystems. . Table of Contents. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Mosses from my back yard. Human impact on the environment. In this lesson you will learn about:. the biological control of pest species. the use of GM crops as an alternative to using fertilisers and pesticides. Success criteria. Earth’s resources. As the human population grows, the demand for resources . increases. .. Our population continues to grow.. Earth’s carrying capacity is actually unknown.. What is carrying capacity?. - Jacques Ives Cousteau. 2. New Orleans is nested between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the brackish estuary of Lake Pontchartrain.. 3. A series of floodwalls, or levees, protects the city from ocean surges from large storms.. Chapter 3 (Miller and . Spoolman. , 2010). Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing. Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface. Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species. Aquatic ecosystems are primarily determined by the ecosystem’s . salinity. . Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of the water.. Aquatic ecosystems are divided into freshwater and marine ecosystems.. What are Ecosystems? . Groups of living things and the non-living environment in which they live.. The people that study ecosystems are called: . “ecologists.”. Let’s look at the living parts of the ecosystem:. Ocean Zones & Ecosystems. Freshwater Zones & Ecosystems. Related Ecology. Benthic Division. 6 Areas. . 1. Supralittoral zone. (supra= upper, litus=shore). . Water splashes but does not stay submerged. Human impact on the environment. The impact of human activities and environmental health sometimes needs to be monitored.. This could be measuring abiotic factors such as O. 2. levels, pollution or by sampling of organisms.. Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United nations and International Organizations in Vienna. Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations and International Organizations in Vienna. 2. Technology has changed the business world many times over.. . In the Information Age, the advent of computers and the Internet has increased that impact significantly. . Introduction. 3. Many businesses cannot even function without the use of...