Ecosystem Services -(earth test 1 Term 2)

Question 1

What is Regulating services ?

Answer 1

• Are the benefits we gain from regulating ecosystems.
• We obtain carbon capture benefits, flood control, disease and pest control.
• The carbon dioxide created from industrial processes can be captures as carbon and stored in the ground, it can also be used in the oil industry to help extract more oil.
• Dams can be used to control the pathways of the water and thus lowering the chance of flooding.
• Removing diseases and pests from an area can make and area that wasn’t safe to go to safe.

Question 2

What are cultural ecosystem services ?

Answer 2

• The spiritual, religious, aesthetic, and educational benefits we gain from ecosystems.
• People go to Niagara Falls for the aesthetic reasons.
• We visited bells rapid for educations benefits.

Question 3

What are provisional ecosystem services ?

Answer 3

-The products obtained from ecosystems like food, fuel, pharmaceuticals.

Question 4

What is supporting services ?

Answer 4

The services necessary for the other services to occur. Humans do not directly benefit from them, and some occur naturally.

Soil formation-

• Soil supports/promotes the growth of vegetation.
• Provisional services rely on good soil fertility
• Rate of soil formation can effect human Heath
• Good soil quality traps carbon from carbon dioxide

Nutrient cycle-
- Nitrogen oxides are produced from engines and fossil fuels, and they get into our waterways from farming.

Water cycle-
- Humans remove water and salt water is drawn in due to the decrease in pressure. Also we remove trees and pants that keep the water table down

Air and water purification-

• Trees take on carbon dioxide created from industrial processes and turn it into carbon which gets put in the soil and oxygen which gets released in the air.
• Rainfall/storms help cope with smoke from bushfires.
• Soil delays flooding by absorbing and slowly releasing water.

Question 5

What are managed resources ?

Answer 5

Managing the consumption and replenishment of resources like fishing limits so fish don’t all die out, letting a habitat replenish when cutting down trees.