Human Activities

and the
Environment
By Jarelle Lucky T. Yanga
SHS Teacher
ENVIRONMENT
 ECOSYSTEM

A community of organisms
interacting with each other and
with the living or nonliving
components of the environment.
ECOSYSTEM
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

❖Support Services
❖Provisioning Services
❖Regulating Services
❖Cultural Services
Support Services

❖ It includes:
- Cycling of vital nutrients
- Cycling of water
- Decomposition of organic matter
- Production of primary materials
 Provisioning Services

❖ It provides the basic needs

for survival – air, water, shelter,
food, and energy.
 Regulating Services

❖It regulates the

climate, hazards,
and diseases.
Cultural Services

❖It includes nonmaterial

benefits such as spiritual
enrichment, cultural heritage,
recreation, tourism, and the
aesthetic experience that nature
provides for humans.
Sources of Wastes

❖ Municipal waste
❖ Agricultural waste
❖ Industrial waste
❖ Mining waste
❖ Biomedical waste
 Municipal Wastes

❖It includes materials

that people in a
community no longer
want because they are
broken, spoiled, or no
longer useful.
 Agricultural Wastes

❖It is a common form

of waste derived from
farming and poultry.
 Industrial Wastes

❖ It includes the wastes

produced from
manufacturing plants such
as chemical plants,
cement production,
power plants, and textile
industries.
Industrial Wastes
 Mining Wastes

❖ It includes the wastes

produced from
exploitation of mineral
resources.
 Mining Wastes

❖ Overburden material
1) Soil and rock that is removed to
extract mineral deposits.
2) Release of overburden material to the
environment can cause siltation of
bodies of water.
Biomedical Wastes

❖ Waste generated by hospitals and

other health care institutions
❖ This type of hazardous waste includes
infectious waste dangerous to people and
environment
 Methods of Waste Disposal

❖ Landfill
❖ Incineration
❖ Composting
❖ Source reduction
❖ Recycling
Landfill
Incineration
Composting
 Source Reduction

❖ It refers to the method of designing,

manufacturing, purchasing, using, and
reusing materials so that the amount of
waste or its toxicity is reduced.
Recycling
 Activity ☺

❖ What is Ecological Literacy? What is the

importance of Ecological Literacy in preventing
the degradation of resources in our planet?

❖Write an essay concerning the questions

mentioned above. Limit the number of words to
200 ONLY. Strictly NO PLAGIARISM. Cite your
references. Save your output in .pdf/ format.
 Thanks!
Any questions?