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- 1Animal Food ProductionSelective Breeding= artificial selection
Artificial Insemination
Contraceptive pills - 2Vegetation Food ProductionMonoculture= cultivation of certain species
Heavy Machinery= soil erosion
Synthetic fertilisers= inorganic chemicals
Insecticides= do not biodegrade, neurotoxic, biomagnification
Herbicides - 3Marine PollutionOil spills
Untreated sewage
Eutrophication= algal bloom
Aquaculture - 4Habitat DestructionDeforestation for land and space= CO2
Habitat Fragmentation
Chemical waste - 5Extraction of natural resourcesMining= soil erosion
Sand extraction= altered volume and flow - 6Acid RainCombustion of fossil fuels
Acid rain= sulphur dioxide and nitrate oxides dissolve in air and react with atmospheric water vapour and acids fall.
Normal rain p.H= 5.6
Acid rain p.H= 4.2-4.4
Effects on soil= acidic, leached nutrients and intoxicated with heavy metals. - 7Destructed Food ChainsExtinction= disrupts the ecosystem
Hunting and poaching
Excessive grazing
Overbreeding
Migration of animals - 8PlasticsLandfill
Mostly non-biodegradable
Toxic - 9IndustryFrom= Nuclear explosion
Nuclear fallout= cancer from radioactive particles - 10Human Impacts on the EnvironmentGreenhouse effect= CO2, Methane, CFCs, Nitrogen oxides
Climate change= floods, droughts...etc
Loss of habitats
Destroyed Food webs/chains - 11—
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- Karteikarten am Ohne Titel, erstellt von Sofia Stankovic am 20/03/2020.
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