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Environmental Problems
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Mind Map on Environmental Problems, created by Ana Stefani Carreño on 01/03/2018.
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Environmental Problems
Droughts
The drought is the lack of rain during a prolonged period.
One of the climatic phenomena that most affects the economic activities of the country.
Floods
Natural phenomenon, by which water exceeds height levels.
In certain occasions it can leave submerged houses.
Deforestation
Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world's regions.
Rainforests and rainforests could disappear completely within a hundred years if the current rate of deforestation continues.
It is the loss or destruction of natural forests due to human activities such as felling and burning of trees for wood
Rising Sea Levels
The rise in sea levels is linked to three main factors, all induced by current climate change:
Thermal expansion
The melting of glaciers and polar ice caps
Loss of ice in Greenland and West Antarctica.
Dumping of E- Waste
Corresponds to all those electrical or electronic products that have been discarded or discarded
Possible solutions
Responsible consumption that includes the recycling of electronic equipment
Reduce the generation of electronic waste.
Donate or sell equipment
Fossil Fuels
They are originated by a transformation process of millions of years of plants and vegetables.
Its combustion generates a lot of gases.
These gases becomes one of the main sources of air pollution
Poaching
It is the practice of illegal hunting of protected animals.
It is because this activity generates high profits.
It is because this activity generates high profits.
Threatened Species
They are those that present conservation problems and that in a future period can be extinguished.
Factors that originate it:
Direct depredation, absence of basic natural resources, climate change and human action.
Global Warming
It is the increase in the temperature of the Earth caused by massive emissions.
The increase in temperature has occurred since the second half of the nineteenth century and must continue while the emissions remain high.
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