Health Flashcards
Its important in order to live and stay healthy
Clean and safe water
Continous supply of air in order to survive
Clean air
What does a healthy environment increases?
The available food supply for the people
A healthy environment increases the available food supply for the people
Clean soil
What are the 3 characteristics of a healthy community?
Clean air, clean and safe water, clean soil
The primary cause of land pollution
Improper disposal lf garbage
Disease carrying pests like rats, mosquitos, flies, and cockroaches
Garbage thrown anywhere
Clog or block the water flow which can result to floods and landslides
Garbage dumped in waterways
Contamination or defilement of the environment
Environmental pollution
It alters the condition of the air, water, and soil that can harm living things
Environemental pollution
It is quite alarming. This is attributed to the proliferation of factories and business establishments without anti pollution devices
Air pollution
Contamination of bodies of wager usually by human activities
Water contamination
One of the manmade factors that contributes to the changing condition of the climate
Deforestation
A major problem that has multiple impacts on the ecosystem
Deforestation
Plants and animal are affected beacuse of the destruction of their habitats
Extinction of species
Without it, it may cause decrease in the supply
Scarcity of resources for food and medicine
Excessive and illegal cutting of trees can cause widespread soil erosion, flash floods, and landslides
Occurence of disasters
Excessive and illegal cutting of trees can cause what?
Widespread soil erosion, flash floods, and landslides
It may result when land’s topsoil is eroded
Desertification of land
Desertification of land may result when
Lan’s topsoil is eroded
The continous increase in the earth’s athmosphere and oceanic temperature
Global warming
A phenomenon that happens all around the world
Climate change
Refers to the erratic change of weather conditions caused by global warming or the rise of earth’s temperature
Climate change
What is the caude of erratic change of weather conditions?
Global warming or the rise of earth’s temperature
Climate problem lies in the use what 3 fossil fuels
Coal, oil, and natural gas
It maintains balance in an ecosystem
Coral reefs
Coral reefs serves as as the?
Nursery of young marine creatures and provide safe shelter
Extracting activity of mineral resources without state permission
Illegal mining
A method of cathing live fish by spraying a mixture of sodium cyanide into the target fish’s habitat
Cyanide fishing
A form of pollution that may occur usually on marine areas, but may also happen on land
Oil spill
What is oil spill?
The release of petroleum hydrocarbon intobthe environment
When you cut down on your consumption of food from animal sources, you lessen the methane increase in the athmosphere
Limit the consumption of food from animal sources
If garbage are not disposed properly, what will happen?
May cause pollution of air, soil and water
Give examples of community commitment
- Giving seminars
- Regulating the use of plastic materials
- Setting up recycling facilities
- Restricting people from burning their garbage
- Planting trees in the community
