Define the following terms:
Fragile environments: Ecosystems that are easily unbalanced by human activity.
Natural Hazards: extreme natural events that can cause loss of life, extreme damage to property and disrupt
human activities
Non-living parts of an ecosystem: things that do not eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce
Living parts of an ecosystem: things that eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce
What is a ‘fair share’:
Climate change can be both natural and human caused. Here we are most concerned with human caused
climate change, sometimes referred to as global warming.
Deforestation is the process of removing trees and forests to make way for human development. Most
deforestation is the result of land clearances for agriculture.
Desertification is the degrading of soils to turn once productive land into a desert landscape. This is usually
the result of overuse from intensive agriculture.
Stone lines, planting pits and
Strategy Tree planting Fuel efficient stoves
composting
Fragile environments: Ecosystems that are easily unbalanced by human activity.
Natural Hazards: extreme natural events that can cause loss of life, extreme damage to property and disrupt
human activities
Non-living parts of an ecosystem: things that do not eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce
Living parts of an ecosystem: things that eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce
What is a ‘fair share’:
Climate change can be both natural and human caused. Here we are most concerned with human caused
climate change, sometimes referred to as global warming.
Deforestation is the process of removing trees and forests to make way for human development. Most
deforestation is the result of land clearances for agriculture.
Desertification is the degrading of soils to turn once productive land into a desert landscape. This is usually
the result of overuse from intensive agriculture.
Stone lines, planting pits and
Strategy Tree planting Fuel efficient stoves
composting
