Chapter 5 - Environmental Issues and Concerns
Chapter 5 - Environmental Issues and Concerns
Chapter 5 - Environmental Issues and Concerns
- Bill Nye
Objectives
1. Introduce acid rain and identify the problem it
causes.
2. Identify the human activities that caused acid
rain.
3. Discuss how ground-level ozone affects one’s
health.
4. Discuss what causes global warming. Use the
figure to illustrate the greenhouse effect.
5. Discuss the Chernobyl disaster to the students.
6. Identify the environmental effects of the
disaster.
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE/ GLOBAL WARMING
• Water vapor
• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide
• Ozone
• CFC’s (chloroflourocarbons)
SOME OF THE SUNLIGHT
THAT ENTERS THE EARTH IS:
• Increases in sea-surface
temperature and changes in
water chemistry can cause
coral bleaching and can
intensify the probability of
coral death.
Human
Instrumentality
Deforestation
• The logging, removing, or burning
of trees in forested areas
• Almost 50% - 90% of all
organisms inhabit tropical
rainforests. They prevent soil
erosion, flooding, and landslides.
• Most of the primates live in the
forest and humans benefit from
the rainforests, from food we eat
to life giving medicines.
Causes of Deforestation
• Technological advances,
subsidies, fisheries agreement,
pirate fishers, catching
unwanted species, destructive
fishing practices, lack of
conservation program
Impacts of Overfishing
• Combustion of fuels
WHAT CAN BE DONE
CONSERVE
01 REDUCE
EMMISONS 03 RESOURCES
FIND RESTORE
02 ALTERNATIV
E SOURCES 04 DAMAGE
DONE BY
OF ENERGY ACID RAIN
OZONE
OZONE
• Ozone is a gas that occurs naturally in the
Earth’s upper atmosphere that protects us from
the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays produced
from the reaction of ultraviolet rays with
oxygen
OZONE
• Ozone in the lower atmosphere, such as near
ground level, is formed from the pollutants
emitted by cars, power plants, boilers, chemical
plants, and other sources that react chemically
in the presence of sunlight.
HERE
HOW CANIS THE SLIDE
GROUND-LEVEL
TITLE!ONE’S
OZONE EFFECT
HEALTH
• Active people
01 BAGUIO
CITY
03 ILOILO
CITY
CAGAYAN
02 CEBU
CITY
04 DE ORO
CITY
HERE
EACH IS THE SLIDE
STATIONS GIVES
TITLE!
ACTUAL LEVEL OF THE
FOLLOWING:
• An indirect cause of
decreased fish production
• Disturbs the natural
ecosystems of mangroves
ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFECTS
• Almost 2,640 km of
agricultural land can no
longer be formed. Forested
area were severely
contaminated especially
the coniferous plants,
berries, mushrooms,
lichens, and ferns.
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
OF THE DISASTER: