Human Impacts on the Environment

• The Environment is the world around us

• It is where we live, where we go to school and work

• It everything we see and everything we touch

• We only have one earth and we all have to share it

• If we want to live in a clean and beautiful world then we have to take care of it

• To protect our resources

• For future generations

• Air Pollution

• Water Pollution

• Industrialisation

• Acid Rain

• Deforestation

• Global Warming

• Oil Spills

• Gasoline Spills

• Acid Rain

• Waste and Litter

• Sewage

• Population growth leads to industrialisation

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Non-renewable resources

• Pollution

• Increased CO² levels

• The burning of fossil fuels releases sulphates and nitrates into the air

• Sulphates and nitrates mix with the water vapour in the air and form sulphuric and nitric acid which falls as acid rain

• Lakes and ponds can become so acidic that no life can survive in them

• Population growth leads to deforestation

• People cut down trees to build homes

• This leads to the loss of natural habitat.

• Leads to a loss of Oxygen producers and Carbon Dioxide eliminators

• Humans have a major impact on the rate of global warming

• The burning of fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) produces greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour)

• These greenhouse gases trap the heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, increasing the temperature of the earth