Essay On Ecological Loss

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• To what extent is ecological loss effecting the environment?
Clean air is essential to a healthy environment and for the healthy life of all living things. Air is said to be polluted when it contains certain substances in high amount and for long periods of time to cause harm.
• World Perspectives:
Air can also get polluted due to natural causes such as volcanic eruptions, forest fires, sandstorms, and pollen from the plants.
The events send smoke, ash, and gases into the atmosphere. Human activities also lead to air pollution. Factories and transport are major sources of pollution. Factories and vehicles emit smoke, which in most cases contains harmful substances that mix with the air. Most air pollution comes from the burning of fuels such as coal and petroleum. Factories and automobiles burn these fuels for power, but they do not burn them completely. The unburnt particles include solids such as soot and ash as well as gases such as carbon monoxide and ozone. In many places, smoke from factories and cars combine with naturally occurring fog to form smog. Air pollution is also caused when fuels such as wood, coal, or kerosene are used in homes for cooking food or heating water. While building …show more content…

The physical environment sustains the biological environment. The two interact with one another in the biosphere, exchanging matter and energy. Groups of plants and animals depend on each other for shade, support, food requirements. In the biosphere, in a given area, plant life, animal life and their physical environment with their interactions, form an ecosystem. The growth and life in an ecosystem could be dependent on physical conditions like sunlight, temperature, rainfall, elevation, soil and slope of the land to name a few. We may use the term biomes for describing the different ecosystems on the basics of their plant and animal

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