Human Impact- Pollution

Human Impact- Pollution

​Human Impact

Multiple Select

Green House Gases - The Impact?

(There are more than one correct answer)

• Cause climate change by trapping heat, and they also contribute to respiratory disease from smog and air pollution.

• Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and increased wildfires

• Extreme pollution

• Extreme heat

Air Pollution

Please write down the following:

What are causes of air pollution?(Name 5)

What can we do to reduce air pollution?

Water Pollution

Causes:

Industrial waste Marine dumping Sewage systems Oil spills/waste Nuclear waste

Consuequences of water pollution

Death of marine life (Reduction in biodiversity) Humans get sick/poisoned by marine

​Eutrophication

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Multiple Choice

What best describes the term succession?

• rapid changes that create an ecosystem overnight

• gradual changes over time to fully create or restore and ecosystem

• forest with the tallest trees

• the rate species produce offspring

Multiple Choice

What is a climax community?

• An ecosystem that is just beginning to grow.

• An ecosystem that is stable and mature and has reached the final stages of succession.

• An ecosystem that is damaged by a forest fire.

• An ecosystem that is damaged by a landslide.

Multiple Choice

What is the original cause of eutrophication?

• Too many predators

• Too many herbivores

• Excess fertilizer

• Too much oxygen

Multiple Choice

Secondary succession (thnk soil) forms after a catastrophic event like a forest fire and has a ___________ growth rate than primary succession because soil already exists.

• extremely slower

• slower

• faster

Dead Zones

An area that cannot support life because of its hypoxic state. There is little to no oxygen in the water. Dead zones are caused by too many nutrients in the water which over stimulate algae growth.

Multiple Choice

What is ecological succession?

• A series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time.

• It is the number of fish increasing.

• It is the seasons of the year.

• It is that rain follows cloud formation.

Multiple Choice

Which describes a dead zone?

• An area of low oxygen in water

• A single point where water drains to

• Where fresh water and salt water meet

Multiple Select

(Check all that apply) Dead zones are regions in a body of water where:

• The water is brackish because salt water is mixing with fresh water

• Decomposer microbes have multiplied and are using up oxygen

• Nutrients from runoff are promoting floating algae growth

• No plants are able to grow because of a lack of sunlight

Open Ended

2.What does the narrator mean by saying " we are too smart for our own good ?"

Multiple Choice

One of the primary human causes of dead zone formation is:

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Deforestation

• Overfishing

• Farming with fertilizers

Open Ended

What are we doing as humans that is destroying(decimating ) our environment?

Open Ended

3. What can you do to change what becomes of our planet?

Multiple Choice

Eutrophication is

• form of water pollution where a nutrient, like nitrogen, is suddenly added to an aquatic environment, causing out-of-control algae growth.

• a form of water pollution where a nutrient is added and nothing happens

• form of water pollution that kills algae

3 Seconds!

As you watch the video think about the following questions:

1.What are we doing as humans that is destroying(decimating ) our environment? 2.What does the narrator mean by saying " we are too smart for our own good ?"

3. What can you do to change what becomes of our planet?