Zhenis Seitekov Checked By: Bigaliyev Aitkhazha Bigaliyevich Almaty 2011 Contents: • Introduction • National environmental issues • The impact of landfills military space systems and test • Radioactive contamination • Oil and ecology • Air pollution • Aerosol pollution of the atmosphere • Conclusion • Literature Introduction People from ancient times has an impact on the environment. As a result‚ this versatile centuries of human activity has left a deep
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CHAPTER 52 AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY AND THE BIOSPHERE Learning objectives The Scope of Ecology 1. Define ecology. 2. Describe the relationship between ecology and evolutionary biology. 3. Distinguish between abiotic and biotic components of the environment. 4. Distinguish among organismal ecology‚ population ecology‚ community ecology‚ ecosystem ecology‚ and landscape ecology. 5. Clarify the difference between ecology and environmentalism. Interactions between Organisms and the
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The theory of Ecology‚ meaning disorganized neighborhoods‚ is the theory that best explains the causes of crime. Ecological criminology was the first social criminology. This developed during the 1920s at the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Ecology is the study of relationships between an organism and the environment it lives in‚ and this type of theory explains crime by the disorganized eco areas where people live instead of the kind of people who live there. The major factors
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the technological modern world has shaped humans to be oblivious of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram‚ the author of the Ecology of magic‚ travels into the wild‚ traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional cultures. Abram intends to communicate his realization of the magical awareness of the countless nonhuman
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Theories: unifying explanations of the natural world Proximate questions: deal with mechanisms. Don’t always need evolutionary explanations Ultimate questions: concerned with evolutionary origins and functions Induction: inference of general law from observations Hypothesis: possible explanation for observation Carolus Linnaeus: binomial nomenclature Nomenclature: system of rules for naming things Taxonomy: naming and classifying organisms Systematics: theory and practice of classifying organisms
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Ortiz‚ Charity APES Period 2 January 23rd‚ 2013 Chapter 8 - Community Ecology 1. The species of equilibrium model/theory of island biogeography states that there is a balance between two factor which determine the number of different species found on the land: the rate at which new species immigrate and the rate at which existing species become extinct. Native species are those that live and thrive in a particular community. Nonnative species‚ invasive species‚ and alien species are those that
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Extra Credit Robins and Oak Trees experiment Due to their large size oak trees become shelters and nesting sites to very many wildlife species‚ so if one were to remove or decrease availability of these oak trees then one might expect the abundance of the animals that use oak trees as a home would decline as well. In this experiment‚ we will be testing whether or not the availability of oak trees in an environment will affect the distribution and abundance of robins. The hypothesis of the experiment
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Organic Pollution INTRODUCTION Definition of Pollution “the introduction by man into the environment of substances/energy liable to cause hazards to human health ‚ harm to living resources and ecological systems ‚ damage to structure or amenity or interference with legitimate uses of the environment”(Mason‚2001) Definition of Pollutant “Chemical or physical in nature and can be measured more or less accurately in water”(Mason‚2001) Pollution of the aquatic environment • Introduction by man
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The current estimate of the worldwide human population at this moment is 7‚241‚862‚395. For every person who dies during the next three days‚ somewhere around the world a baby will be born who will‚ physically speaking‚ replace that death. With that being said there are 108 deaths per minutes‚ 155‚911 deaths per day and 56‚907‚606 per year. After all of those replacement births take place‚ 684‚000 additional births will occur. Every Minute of the day there are 267 births so that means every day
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The data collected from the number of each type of macroinvertebrate was calculated to determine the Modified Family Biotic Index‚ percent contribution of dominant family‚ and EPT Index number for each of the three collection sites. The number of organisms and families of macroinvertebrates along with the calculated data can be seen in Table 1. Other sets of data was recorded and compared to test the stream quality at Pricket’s Creek. The water temperatures (°C) were 16.76 ± 2.32 (mean ± St. Dev
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