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