EMST MIDTERM REVIEWER

is the degradation of the earth’s surface as a result of human activity and their misuse of land resources

• Land Pollution

• Water Pollution

• Land Degradation

• Water Degradation

These include all the various kinds of rubbish we make at home, school, hospitals, market and workplaces. Things like paper, plastic and broken electronic goods, broken furniture and hospital waste are all examples of?

• Pesticides and Fertilizers

• Chemicals

• Deforestation

• Solid Waste

These includes waste matter produced by crop, animal manure, and farm residues.

• Mining Activities

• Farm Activities

• Agriculture Activities

• Animal Activities

Include a lot of human actions, like deforestation, overuse of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, desertification, mining, inefficient and or inadequate waste treatment, landfill, litter, etc.

These include waste like debris, wood, metals and plastics that are produced from construction activities

Mainly refers to cutting trees to clear land for agriculture, as well as processes like desertification and land conversion.

amounts to wastage, and hence shortage of land; and it is precisely during such conditions that man has to resort to measure such as deforestation and others to meet his needs

Species are pushed towards endangerment and extinction primarily by two processes.

This decomposed waste should be further dumped in pits so that it can be converted into compost and used for agriculture.

Initiative should be taken to grow more trees.