MID Flashcards
(39 cards)
immensely leads to multiple issues including threats brought about by egregious human activities that eventually destroy the environment.
Globalization
has been integrated in the Philippine Education System to raise awareness among the youth in taking care of the environment to maintain quality living condition of the entire nation.
Environmental Education
is a process aimed at developing a world population that is aware of and concerned about the total environment and its associated problems and which has the knowledge.
Environmental education
is a process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment.
Environmental education
does not advocate a particular viewpoint or course of action.
Environmental education
teaches individuals how to weigh various sides of an issue through critical thinking and it enhances their own problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Environmental education
backbone of our country’s economy since most Filipinos depend on farming.
Agricultural Ecosystem
Philippines has some of the richest and most diverse coral reefs in the world.
Coral Reef Ecosystem
Water is life. All loving creatures depend on it. Clean water means a clean ecosystem.
Freshwater Ecosystem
Productivity means efficient use of the natural resources or materials available in the system without external inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, artificial light, etc.) and without leaving behind any harmful effects.
Forest Ecosystem
prevent flooding. Absorbed water from existing trees supplies water to the creeks and streams so that they never run dry.
Forest Ecosystem
people-induced ecosystems. Usually occurring in the circumference of other ecosystems, these are converted systems of forests, cropland, and coastal areas.
Marginal Ecosystem
in salty water and muddy portions of the coastline where the freshwater from rivers and saline water from seas meet.
Mangrove Ecosystem
called the meadows of the sea.
Seagrass Ecosystem
source of food for plant- eating animals such as sea cows or dugong, sea urchins, turtles, and other fishes
Seagrass Ecosystem
This ecosystem is found in the open seas beyond light penetration from a depth of 50 meters up to more than 10,000 meters deep.
Softbottom Ecosystem
refers to the loci of human activities.
Urban Ecosystem
defined as the altercation of our surroundings, wholly or largely as a product of man’s actions, through direct or indirect effects of changes in every pattern of chemical and physical constituent of organisms.
POLLUTION
- can be solids, liquids, or gases.
- are everywhere in the air, in water says, and in soil.
Pollutants
defined as physical and chemical altercation of the properties of air, which is harmful to human health, vegetation, and animals.
Air pollution
type of pollution derived from the mixture or collection of additional loads of chemicals produced by natural components of the atmosphere, thereby, producing harmful effects to living systems.
Outdoor pollution
is a type of pollution derived from the accumulation or build-up of chemicals inside the office, building, houses, school, commercial store and are harmful to health.
Indoor air pollution
indeed a significant risk factor for human health conditions, causing allergies, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases as well as lung damage.
Air pollution
involves preventing a problem before it occurs, or at least limiting the effects the process will produce.
Input control
