GROUP #4

MEMBERS
XIOMARA VELASQUEZ
BENJAMIN MORENO
ARWEN SANTOS
JENNIFER CHICAS
MAURY CARVAJAL
 INTRODUCTION THINK ABOUT

IT!
The first humans to settle Hawaii came from Polynesia about 1600 years ago. These island
people had customs that protected the natural resources of their new home. For example,
they were prohibited from catching certain fish during spawning season and, for every
coconut palm tree cut down, they had to plant two palms in its place. But Hawaiians did not
treat their islands entirely like nature reserves. They cut trees to plant farms, and the
introduced nonnative plants, pigs, chickens, dogs, and rats. This combination drove many
native plant and animal species to extinction. Yet for centuries Hawaii´s ecosystems
provided enough fresh water, fertile soil, fish, and other resources to keep their society self-
sufficient.
HUMANS IMPACT THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT IN MANY

WAYS: OVERPOPULATION, POLLUTION, BURNING FOSSIL

FUELS, AND DEFORESTATION. CHANGES LIKE THESE HAVE

TRIGGERED CLIMATE CHANGE, SOIL EROSION, POOR AIR

QUALITY, AND UNDRINKABLE WATER.

THE EFFECT OF

HUMAN ACTIVITY
 Living on an island nation surrounded by water has
one distinct advantage for the seafood lover. Island
nations have easy and direct access to fresh seafood.
The varities of seafood available in these nations,
however, depend on their location.

Many island nations are located in tropical waters.

means that island nations have easy access to marine

food sources including plenty of fish.

Living in island earth

 AGRICULTURE
Is one of the most important inventions in human

history.A dependable supply of food that can be stored

for later use enabled humans to gather in settlements

that grew into towns and cities.

WHAT

IS MONOCULTURE?
Is practice of clearing large

areas of land to plant a single

highly productive crop year after

year.
Development
Development is a process that
creates growth, progress,
positive change or the addition
of physical, economic,
environmental, social and
As modern society developed,
demographic components. many people chose to live in the
some Developed country's as
urban centers became crowned,
people move to, and built up,
Sububs is tied to the high standard
of living.
 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
Human society was transformed by the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s.
Today, industry and scientific know-how to provide us with the conveniences of
modern life from comfortable homes and clothes to electronic devices for work
and play. Of course these conveniences require a lot of energy to produce and
power. We obtain most of this energy by burning fossil fuels coal, oil, and
natural gas and that affects the environment. In addition, industries have
traditionally discarded wastes from manufacturing and energy production
directly into the air, water and soil.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In the economic form, goods are
things that can be bought and sold,
that have a value in term of dolar

and cents. Services are processes or

actions that produce goods.
 ecosystem services are the conditions and processes through which
natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and
fulfill human life. They maintain biodiversity and the production of
ecosystem goods.

Many of the goods and services provided by aquatic ecosystems are

intuitive, such as potable water sources, food production, etc..

Services are sometimes grouped from the perspective of human users

into categories such as extractive and nonextractive or consumptive
and nonconsumptive.

Ecosystem Good and Services

 A renewable resource is a resource that can be

replenished naturally over time. As a result, it is

sustainable despite its consumption by humankind.

Examples of renewable

resources
the

sun
wind
water
A non-renewable resource refers to a natural resource that is found

beneath the earth, which when consumed, does not replenish at the

same speed at which it is used up. The resources typically take

millions of years to develop. The main examples of non-renewable

resources are fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas, which humans

regularly draw to produce energy.

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

Resource sustainability refers to the long-term availability of a raw material that is either
renewable

Sustainable Resource
Examples of sustainable resources include hydropower, solar
power and wind power, to name a few. Solar power, for example,
is classed as a sustainable resource because the sun's energy can
be captured without the depletion of the sun itself.

It is an important metric for sustainable investors in

understanding how quickly humans are using the Earth’s
dwindling resources, how much can be replaced or
recycled, and how long other materials have left before
they are exhausted.
 1.What is monoculture?
2.What is renewable resource?
(Example)
3.What is nonrenewable resources?
(Example)
4.Mention 2 ways Humans impact the
physical environment
5.What was the topic of our presentation?(Easy one)