Water degradation is causing creatures in the ocean to migrate‚ or die because of the amount of toxic waste being thrown into the ocean. "The oil spilled in the ocean could get on the gills and feathers of marine animals‚ which makes it difficult for them to move or fly properly or feed their children"( What is ocean pollution?") Oil spills can harm and/or kill marine animals. When the marine animals get the oil in their feathers they can fly‚ so therefore‚ they wouldn’t be able to provide food to
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Alicia Tucker – 55362 PSY 312 – Tests and Measurements in Psychology 1. What is the Lake Wobegon Effect and how does it arise? In Garrison Keillor’s fictional town of Lake Wobegon‚ “all the women are strong‚ all the men are good-looking‚ and all the children are above average.” (Gregory‚ 2011). The Lake Wobegon effect is a natural tendency to overestimate one’s capabilities and see oneself as better than others. Research psychologists refer to this tendency as self-enhancement bias and have found
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Air and water pollution affect the biotic and abiotic environment on a global scale. All pollutants affect individuals in different ways‚ but mainly affect those with asthma or underlying respiratory conditions. Transportation and energy consumption are the biggest contributors to pollution and global warming. With world population on the rise‚ carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is also climbing a steep hill. CO2‚ a primary air pollutant‚ is the most major concern amongst environmental scientists‚
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Could pollution lead to the “End of the World”? Many people do not care about the consequences of some of their actions such as not following the rules to prevent harm to the environment when they are over manufacturing or when people are wasting some products made by natural sources‚ for example plastic bags or paper. The three negative effects of pollution are the decrease in the quality of human life‚ animal extinction and damage to the natural environment. The first effect caused by pollution
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EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION Nowadays‚ we are busy with our lives and do not realise that what we have done to our environment. In fact‚ there are a lot of pollutions which have caused by human’s activities especially the air pollution. Air pollution is a commonly understood environmental issue. According to a study by the World Health Organization‚ there is an average of 2 million people are killed worldwide every year due to air pollution. So‚ it has shown us how seriously the tendency of air pollution
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Human Effects on Air Pollution Did you know that the average person inhales up to 20‚000 liters of air every single day? Well a larger percentage of that is filled with dust and chemical particles that are harmful to us humans. 154.5 million people in the US‚ which is about half of the population‚ live in areas in which it is dangerous to breathe because of the smog and other chemical particles that are floating around in the air. We now live in a world where breathing‚ something we need in order
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pollution because of tourism Tourism can cause the same forms of pollution as any other industry: air emissions‚ noise‚ solid waste and littering‚ releases of sewage‚ oil and chemicals‚ even architectural/visual pollution. Air pollution and noise Transport by air‚ road‚ and rail is continuously increasing in response to the rising numbe reported that the number of international air passengers worldwide rose from 88 million in 1972 to 344 million in 1994. One consequence of this increase in air
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How to deal with water pollution? Water pollution could be a dangerous ecological menace to beaches‚ groundwater‚ animal and human health. Environmental‚ human and animal factors may create an infinite array of variables that change the way in which a particular water pollution can be dealt with. According to the World Wildlife Fund (as cited in Association for Sustainable & Responsible in Asia (ASrIA)‚ 2012 )‚ “…controlling pollution is important to conserving biodiversity…”(n.p.)
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agriculture and industry‚ water pollution has been a major problem. The reason why this issue became so important these years is that the water pollution can not only poison the creatures in the water but also affect the quality of our drinking water. Causes The main cause of water pollution is human activities‚ which means the human being pollute the water by discharging the industrial‚ agriculture and domestic waste water. And the most serious part is the industrial waste water because of the large
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