1.5 and 1.2

Question 1

One characteristic of Pollution?

Answer 1

Pollution is highly diverse phenomenon of human disturbance in ecosystems

Question 2

How can Pollution Management Strategies be used?

Answer 2

pollution management Strategies
can be applied at different levels

Question 3

What is Pollution?

Answer 3

Pollution is the addition of substance or an agent to un environment through human activity, at a rate greater than which it can be rendered harmless by the environment

Question 4

What effect does pollution have?

Answer 4

Has an appreciable effect on
organisms in the environment

Question 5

What Are Pollutants?

Answer 5

Pollutants may be in the form of Organic or inorganic Substances, light,
Sound, thermal energy, biological agents or invasive species, and may derive from a wide range of human activities including.
combustion of fossil fuels

Question 6

How Can Pollutants be Presented?

Answer 6

Pollutants may be non-point or Point source, persistent or biodegradable acut or chronic.
Pollutants may be primary (active emission or secondary arising from primary pollutants undergoing physical/ chemical
change

Question 7

DDT

Answer 7

exemplifies conflict between the L utility of a “pollutant” and its effect on the environment.

Question 8

Process Of Pollution

Answer 8

human activity producing pollutant
Release pollutant into eviviorment

level of pollution managment

controlling reales of pollutant

• Activity /production not stopped
• Strategies applied at the level of

-regulating or preventing release

-regulating standard of emission

Question 9

Levels of Pollution Management

Answer 9

Level of pollution management
- Altering human activity
- Change human activity by promoting alternative tech, lifestyles and values
- government
-campaigns
-legislation
- education
- community groups

Question 10

Impact of pollutant on ecosystem

Answer 10

Clean-up restoration of damaged Systems

• both leveles of manegment failed
• Strategies introduce recover

damaged ecosystems

• extracting removing pollutant
• replanting / restocking

depleted populations

Question 11

Species

Answer 11

Species interacts with its abiotic an biotic environments, and its niche is described by these interactions

Question 12

Population

Answer 12

• populations change and respond to interactions with the environment

Question 13

Systems

Answer 13

Any system has a carrying Capacity for a given Species

Question 14

Species #2

Answer 14

Species is a group of organisms that Share com on characteristics and that interbreed to produce fertile offspring.

Question 15

What are Habitats

Answer 15

A habitat is the environment in which a species normally lives

Question 16

What’s a Niche

Answer 16

A niche describes
the particular set
or abiotic and biotic conditions and resources to which and organism
or population responds.

Question 17

Fundamental Niche

Answer 17

The fundamental niche describes the full range of conditions and resources in which species could Survive and reproduce.

Question 18

realized niche

Answer 18

The realized niche describes the actual conditions and resources
In which a species exists due to biotic interactions.

Question 19

non- living an physical factors

Answer 19

The non- living an physical factors that influence the organisms and ecosystem - such as temp, Sunlight, pH, Salinity, precipitation and termed abiotic factors.

Question 20

Interactions Between Organisms

Answer 20

The interactions between the organisms such as predation, herbivore, Paratism, mutualism, disease. and competition are biotic factors
Some organisms, habitats change over time due to migration

Question 21

Interactions Between Organisms #2

Answer 21

in terms of the influence each species has on the population dynamics of others and upon the carrying capacity of the otters environment

Question 22

Ecosystems

Answer 22

community and physical
environment with which interacts Community + abiotic factors

Question 23

Biomes

Answer 23

Biomes
ecosystems sharing similar climatic Conditions that can be grouped.
aquatic, forest, grass land, desert.
limiting factors

Productivity Biodiversity