C1 - How Human Activity Affects the Environment
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- Created on: 12-04-14 19:02
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- Human activity is changing the atmosphere
- We're adding small pollutants into the atmosphere
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Carbon Monoxide (CO)
- Particulates (e.g. of carbon)
- Formed from incomplete combustion (can cause damage to lungs and cause difficulty of breathing)
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Pollutants come from many sources
- Burning fuels
- Power stations
- Vehicles
- Released by nature
- Volcanoes
- Burning fuels
- Some pollutant gases are directly harmful to humans
- Death
- Disease
- Carbon monoxide is very harmful as it reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry (can lead to flu-like symptoms and eventually death)
- Death
- Carbon monoxide is very harmful as it reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry (can lead to flu-like symptoms and eventually death)
- Carbon monoxide is very harmful as it reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry (can lead to flu-like symptoms and eventually death)
- Some pollutants can harm humans indirectly (by damaging our environment)
- Sulfur dioxide can cause acid rain, which changes the pH of rivers/lakes/oceans and can kill fish that we eat.
- Other pollutants like carbon dioxide are leading to climate change which causes many problems like sea levels rising.
- We're adding small pollutants into the atmosphere
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