Human Impacts on the Environment
Human Impacts on the Environment
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Learning Goals:
Learning Goals:
1.) We can describe ways in which human activities alter balances and interactions in the environment.
1.) We can describe ways in which human activities alter balances and interactions in the environment.
2.) We can describe ways in which human technologies alter balances and interactions in the environment.
2.) We can describe ways in which human technologies alter balances and interactions in the environment.
TASK
TASK
You will study the impact of a factor related to human activity that threatens the sustainability of a terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem.
You will study the impact of a factor related to human activity that threatens the sustainability of a terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem.
You will then discuss what has already been done to remedy the problem and what can and should be done in the future to limit the human impact.
You will then discuss what has already been done to remedy the problem and what can and should be done in the future to limit the human impact.
To narrow your research, please choose ONE terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem to focus on.
To narrow your research, please choose ONE terrestrial or aquatic ecosystem to focus on.
Examples of ways in which we negatively impact ecosystems are:
Examples of ways in which we negatively impact ecosystems are:
1.) Introducing invasive species
1.) Introducing invasive species
2.) Taking away native species from an ecosystem;
2.) Taking away native species from an ecosystem;
3.) Clear cutting forests (Deforestation);
3.) Clear cutting forests (Deforestation);
4.) Overfishing;
4.) Overfishing;
5.) Hunting animals;
5.) Hunting animals;
6.) Pollution (Water, plastics);
6.) Pollution (Water, plastics);
7.) Waste dumping
7.) Waste dumping
8.) Urban sprawl and its effects on local (specific) wild life.
8.) Urban sprawl and its effects on local (specific) wild life.
9.) Level of heavy metals and decline in large birds
9.) Level of heavy metals and decline in large birds
10.) DDT and the decrease in fish eating birds
10.) DDT and the decrease in fish eating birds
11.) Increase in acid rain and its effects on aquatic organisms
11.) Increase in acid rain and its effects on aquatic organisms
12.) Mining and its effects on the environment.
12.) Mining and its effects on the environment.
13.) Monocultures in forests.
13.) Monocultures in forests.
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