Human Impacts on the planet

Cards (6)

  • Suggest why it is important to have biodiversity in an ecosystem?
    To provide food and shelter for animals and plants to live in.
    Food security
    Development of medicine
  • Name two gases that link to global warming
    Carbon Dioxide
    Methane
  • Give an example of how global warming could reduce biodiversity
    As the earth warms up, habitats are being destroyed resulting in less change in animals are resources cut slim
  • Why might humans carry out deforestation
    for more wood
  • Explain why the destruction of peat bogs add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
    releases the stored carbon into the atmosphere in the form of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. 
  • How can recycling programmes help to protect ecosystems?
    Reduce waste and less habitats being destroyed