Environmental Problems

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Mind Map on Environmental Problems, created by Ana Stefani Carreño on 01/03/2018.
Ana Stefani Carreño
Mind Map by Ana Stefani Carreño, updated more than 1 year ago
Ana Stefani Carreño
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Environmental Problems
  1. Droughts
    1. The drought is the lack of rain during a prolonged period.
      1. One of the climatic phenomena that most affects the economic activities of the country.
      2. Floods
        1. Natural phenomenon, by which water exceeds height levels.
          1. In certain occasions it can leave submerged houses.
          2. Deforestation
            1. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world's regions.
              1. Rainforests and rainforests could disappear completely within a hundred years if the current rate of deforestation continues.
                1. It is the loss or destruction of natural forests due to human activities such as felling and burning of trees for wood
                2. Rising Sea Levels
                  1. The rise in sea levels is linked to three main factors, all induced by current climate change:
                    1. Thermal expansion
                      1. The melting of glaciers and polar ice caps
                        1. Loss of ice in Greenland and West Antarctica.
                      2. Dumping of E- Waste
                        1. Corresponds to all those electrical or electronic products that have been discarded or discarded
                          1. Possible solutions
                            1. Responsible consumption that includes the recycling of electronic equipment
                              1. Reduce the generation of electronic waste.
                                1. Donate or sell equipment
                            2. Fossil Fuels
                              1. They are originated by a transformation process of millions of years of plants and vegetables.
                                1. Its combustion generates a lot of gases.
                                  1. These gases becomes one of the main sources of air pollution
                              2. Poaching
                                1. It is the practice of illegal hunting of protected animals.
                                  1. It is because this activity generates high profits.
                                    1. It is because this activity generates high profits.
                                  2. Threatened Species
                                    1. They are those that present conservation problems and that in a future period can be extinguished.
                                      1. Factors that originate it:
                                        1. Direct depredation, absence of basic natural resources, climate change and human action.
                                    2. Global Warming
                                      1. It is the increase in the temperature of the Earth caused by massive emissions.
                                        1. 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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