1.5 Humans & Pollution

Significant Ideas:

• Pollution is a highly diverse phenomenon of human disturbance in ecosystems.

• Pollution management strategies can be applied at different levels.

Applications & Skills:

• Construct systems diagrams to show the impact of pollutants.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of each of the three different levels of intervention, with reference to Figure 3.

• Evaluate the uses of DDT.