Factors of Climate Change
Planting the same single plant in large areas repeatedly
Two types of air pollution (think categories, not examples)
What are human and natural causes?
Increase in nutrients in a body of water
Example: Algal blooms caused due to an increase in nutrients of the water bodies
What is Eutrophication?
Pollution of the land through its degradation due to unwanted chemicals and other factors in the soil
What is Soil Pollution?
Name a heavy metal besides Lead
What is Cadmium, Arsenic, Chromium, Mercury, Nickel, or Copper?
Clearing and destroying forests, usually to replace them with urbanization or agriculture
What is Deforestation?
Burning of fossil fuels.
Exhaust from cars and automobiles.
Deforestation.
Wildfires.
What are sources of Air Pollution?
Increasing the level of toxins and pollutants at each successive level of the food chain
What is Biomagnification?
Intensive farming leading to the overuse of agrochemicals
Improper disposal of wastes
Dust particles
Urban wastes
Accidental oil spills
Radioactive pollutants
What are Sources of Soil Pollution?
The total amount of healthy land and water ecosystems you needed to provide the resources you use
What is an Ecological Footprint?
Loss of Carbon Sinks, Less Fresh Water, Hotter Temperatures
Effects of Deforestation
60% water vapor
20% carbon dioxide
Remaining 20% a combination of methane, nitrous oxide, and tropospheric ozone
What are Greenhouse Gases?
Reducing dissolved oxygen in the water bodies thus disrupting aquatic life.
Disturbing the pH and salinity of the water bodies leading to loss of aquatic life.
Increasing the risk of water-borne diseases such as hepatitis, cholera, and typhoid in humans.
Loss of soil fertility making it unfit for agriculture.
Adverse effect on the growth of flora and fauna in the soil.
Groundwater pollution.
Increasing the salinity of the soil, making it unfit for agriculture.
Human-altered Biomes
What are Anthromes?
The process of more and more people living in cities
What is Urbanization?
Respiratory disorders in humans such as asthma, lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, and other lung problems.
Formation of smog that reduces visibility.
Acid Rain
What are the effects of air pollution?
Percent of available Freshwater on Earth
What is 1%?
Plants are at this level in the food web
What are Producers?
Measurable long-term changes in temperature averages, clouds, winds, precipitation, and in the frequency of extreme weather events
What is Climate Change?
The breaking up of habitats resulting in biodiversity loss and the vulnerability of ecosystems
What is Habitat Fragmentation?
What is heat?
Famous city in Michigan without clean drinking water
What is Flint?
Soil Pollution can often also contribute to this other type of pollution
What is Water Pollution?
How many more lives would you have to live to match the amount of emissions Shell puts out in a single year?
What is 77 Million?