Zusammenfassung der Ressource
enviromental problems
- deforestation
- means the lost of forest
- cutting down trees to do farmlands, motorways or houses
- cutting down trees to produce wood
- when a forest disappear, the animas that live there dissapear too
- climate change
- variations in climate elements sucha as temperature, precipitation and wind
- can be acused by natural phenomena
- the consecuencies are: ice caps melting, sea levels rising and coastal areas are flooding
- pollution
- is the release of harmful sustances into the enviroment
- air pollution: by gases released
- water pollution: by industrial waste, chemicals and wastewater
- soil pollution: by chemicals used in agriculture and wastewater
- overexplotation
- happens when we consume natural resources faster than they are replenished
- when we catch too many fish
- extincion of species
- disappearance of forests
- depletion of aquifers