Thursday, February 9, 2012

Human caused environmental problems?

List 7 human caused environmental problems and describe 3Human caused environmental problems?1) pollution from non bio degradable waste.

2) technology creates air pollution which leads to green house effect due to increase of super oxide in the atmosphere.

3) destorying natural land to make room for buildings/houses. plants will not be able to grow on this land.

4) destorying trees will produce less breathable air.

5) chemical waste disposal.

6) Humans hunt animals for money such as whales and elephants.

7) humans are in exponential growth. more and more humans will inhabit the planet which will create a greater demand on all resources.Human caused environmental problems?1. Deforestation. This is happening at a great rate in the tropics where rain forests are being cut down and burned to provide crop land.



2. Ozone hole. This is caused by the release of chloro-fluorocarbons into the atmosphere. These were used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants.



3. Emission of greenhouse gases

4. Loss of species in the oceans.



5. Extinction of many large mammals on the land. The data shows that when people first arrived in Australia, they killed off the largest marsupials. When they arrived in the Western Hemisphere, there was a similar loss of large mammals.



6. Pollution of the ground water and surface fresh water

7. Reduction in the genetic variability of plants

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