Chapter 9

Theme: investigating the

relationship between living
things and the environment.

GRACE ANAK
PAUL BRENDALY
RAAYOAN
TITTLE: ENDANGERD ECOSYSTEM

HUMAN ACTIVITIES THAT TRETHEN THE

ECOSYSTEM
1. Deforestation
2. Burning of fossil fuels
3. Overuse of fertilizers in intensive farming
4. Dumping of domestic and industrial waste

➢ Human activities affected the whole ecosystem causing

conflicts and arise in pollution in the world today.
➢ We need to protect and reserved the ecosystem for our use
in the future. The negative effects are hasty, unplanned
development and mismanagement, thus cause problems to
the balance of the ecosystem such as air, water and land
pollution.
➢ Greenhouse effects, global warming are warning to the
human beings to stop open deforestation and polluting to
the environments.
Negative effects:

a) These problems bring out negative effects to the

economic resources, health and survival of the
ecosystems.
b) These problems to causing a lot of viruses to attack the
human health.
 ➢ Human activities that have undesirable effects on the
environment.

THE IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES

ON THE ECOSYSTEM

Deforestation and its effect

1. Rapid destruction of woodlands or removal or trees
from the forest are known as deforestation.
2. Mostly this occurs when people want to do agriculture
and development at the place.
3. Tropical rainforest, important ecological roles:
a) Rainforest are the oldest ecosystem on earth
and house almost half of the flora and fauna of
the world.
 b) Contain many unique species which provide food,
medicine and other biological products. 70% of
the plants today are useful for treatments, can
only be found in the tropical rainforest s.
c) It regulates the climate by influencing wind,
rainfall, humidity, and temperature patterns.
d) It is also called ‘carbon sink’ of the earth because
they absorbed vast amounts of carbon dioxide
during photosynthesis and at the same time
release oxygen into the atmosphere.
e) They also serve as water catchment areas.
1. In general, deforestation results in:
a) Soil erosion
b) Flash floods
c) Landslides
d) Disruption to the carbon dioxide and nitrogen
cycles
e) Severe climate changes
f) The loss of biodiversity
1. Forest absorbs about 87 tons of carbon dioxide per
hectare through photosynthesis every year, and at
the same time release an equal amount of oxygen
into the atmosphere.
A picture before deforestation.
A picture of scenery at Kuching. Deforestation occurred everywhere.
DEFORESTATION CAUSES SOIL EROSION,
LANDSLIDES AND FLASH FLOODS.

DEFORESTATION RESULTS IN
THE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY

➢ Deforestation has a devastating effect on the

biodiversity in the tropical rain forest, causing the
destruction of millions of species in the forest by
human activities, such as:

The Dodo, shown here in a 1651 illustration by

Jan Savery, is an often-cited example of modern extinction.
 The Golden Toad was last seen on May 15,
1989. Decline in amphibian populations is ongoing worldwide.

Picture of disforestation
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Modern extinctions/Main article: Holocene extinction/Further

information: Deforestation
Deforestation disrupts the carbon and nitrogen
cycle

Deforestation causes climate changes

➢ Deforestation disrupts the normal weather patterns, creating
hotter, drier weather and causing global climatic changes.
➢ The removal of trees reduces transpiration, rain fall and the
rate at which plants absorbs carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere during photosynthesis.
➢ This leads to an increase in the carbon dioxide level in the
atmosphere. High level of carbon dioxide prevents heat from
escaping from the atmosphere. This is known as the
greenhouse effect which is believed to lead to global
warming.
➢ Forest clearing and burning of wood results in air pollution
and released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
➢ Burning of tree in the tropics adds about 25% more carbon
dioxide to the atmosphere.

Burning of fossil fuels and its effects

➢ The burning of fossil fuels adds about 75% of carbon dioxide
to the atmosphere.
➢ An increase in carbon dioxide level is associated with the
greenhouse effect and global warming.