Summary • Population is a group of organism of the same species living in a certain place
• Biodiversity refers to the variety of life in an area
• Communities with many different species (a high of
diversity)will able to withstand environmental changes better than communities with only a few species (a low index of diversity). The ECOSYSTEM • Population sizes vary among organism. They change with the number of births and when they move into an ecosystem. They also change when members die or move out of an ecosystem.
• The carrying capacity is affected by changes
environment. • The principal causes of deforestation are illegal logging,kaingin,farming,forest fires, and conversion of agricultural lands to housing projects,and typhoon. • The effects of deforestation include soil erosion,floods,and depletion of wildlife resources. • The major cause if wildlife depletion is the loss of habitat.
• Coral reef destruction caused by dynamite fishing
and muro-ami,while mangrove destruction is caused by over harvesting and conversion of the area into other uses. • In eutrophication,nutrients are washed away from the land to enrich bodies of water. It causes excessive growth of aquatic plants and algae and results in algal bloom,which eventually die and decompose. The process depletes the oxygen dissolved in water, causing fish and other aquatic organisms to die. • Acid rain is a result of air pollution mostly from factories and motor vehicles.
• Sustainable development means that a society
should live under the carrying capacity of the environment. GLOSSARY Species • A group of organisms that have certain characteristics in common and are able to interbreed Biodiversity • Refers to the variety of life in an area. Population • The total number of organisms of the same species inhabiting a place at the same time. Population density • The number of individuals in an area Limiting factor • Environmental conditions that keep the populationspopulations from over increasing in size and thus help balance ecosystems. Carrying capacity • Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support Endangered species • A species in which the number of individuals falls so low that extinction is possible. Threatened species • Species that have rapidly decreasing numbes of individuals Deforestation • Removing or clearing of a forest to include the cutting of all trees, mostly for agricultural or urban use PCB • (Poly chlorinated biphenyl)toxic wastes produced in the making of paints, inks and electrical insulators Acid rain • Broad term referring to a mixture of wet and dry deposition (deposited material) from the atmosphere containing higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids The ecosystem • Yory Olaya Maraver