Human Impact on environment and ecosystems.
- Created by: tasha.berkley
- Created on: 04-06-18 19:49
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- Human Impact on environment and ecosystems.
- Comercial fishing
- Over fishing- extinction
- By- catching- not intended to catch
- bottom trawling- destroying coral reefs and catching smaller fish.
- poisons, explosives
- Mechanising of farming
- Biodeverity reduces as there is a single crop.
- nutrients lost as there is no cycle.
- soil erosion.
- herbicides and pesticides kill animals and plants.
- Deforestation
- extinction of natural vegetation.
- animals and plants die, no habitat.
- no nutrient cycle
- no water cycle.
- Poor soil.
- Mining
- large scale deforestation
- all ground stripped away, no vegetation.
- greenhouse gases released.
- ground cannot be used anymore
- Reservoirs
- blasting chemicals and water
- starves ecosystems of water
- social displacement
- Water transfer schemes
- diverting/ splitting a river
- species disrupted
- killing of species
- erosion speeded up
- Comercial fishing
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