as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. What many people don’t realize is the forest also acts as a giant filter that cleans the air we breath. 2. Trees Clean the Soil The term phytoremediation is a fancy word for the absorption of dangerous chemicals and other pollutants that have entered the soil. Trees can either store harmful pollutants or actually change the pollutant into less harmful forms. Trees filter sewage and farm chemicals‚ reduce the effects of animal wastes‚ clean
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Abstract: Soil serves as one of the basic medium of life as a variety of elements‚ which are vital to life are embedded in it. However‚ the human activities are polluting the soil unintentionally. Consequently‚ a wide range of contaminants enter the soil. Nevertheless‚ heavy metals are the most toxic of all the pollutants. Among these‚ lead‚ cadmium‚ chromium‚ mercury and arsenic are most toxic and can cause multiple organ damages even when present in small amount. Although‚ these elements are necessary
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Environmental Sustainability Paper GLG/101 Danita LaSage Rachelle Ann Franko September 10‚ 2011 In today’s world it’s our responsibility as the population to create Sustainability with the earth’s resources. There are only so many resources on earth like timber‚ food‚ petroleum etc. to go around. The more that we use and take in the less it becomes available for us to consume. The world’s budget cannot indeterminately increase on a limited world. As a result the economy develops and the population
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Intensive farming is a way of producing vast amounts of crops by using numerous chemicals and machines. These practices include growing high-yield crops‚ using fertilisers‚ pesticides and keeping animals indoors. Food production is increased however there are various advantages and disadvantages of this particular method. An example of this method would be conventional chicken farming. This method may be used by farmers due to predators e.g. foxes killing their free range chickens‚ minimising their
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and a desert biome it is right in the middle of them. Savannas are created when humans burn grasslands and cut down trees kind of like slash and burn process to plant crops. An interesting fact about the Savanna biome is that its soil is very diverse every type of soil used for agriculture has been found there. Due to the prolonged dry and wet climate the availability of food
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wood fuel for cooking and this has led to deforestation of the region. Increasing numbers of people keep cattle and grow crops on the land. Population growth is leading to a rise in cattle numbers and over-cultivation of land. The cattle trample the soil and eat the grass cover that makes it less fertile and easily eroded by
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development of their children’s entire personality has to formulate a scheme of hobbies‚ occupations id projects that will appeal to‚ and draw out the powers ’children of varying temperaments and aptitudes’. replenishment of nutrition In a plot of soil untouched by human beings‚ the decaying growth from this
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Forests A forest is an area filled with trees which provides homes for many different living things. The forests found in Trinidad and Tobago are called Tropical Seasonal Forests because they are found near the Earth’s equator and have both wet and dry seasons. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A forest is made up of different layers. The Emergent Layer is very sunny because it is at the very top and only the
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of soil as roots no longer hold soil together * Less take-up of water by plant roots * Less interception of rain fall by vegetation cover Positive impact of flooding in Ganges/Brahmaputra river basin Regular annual flooding is essential to people who live on the flood plain of these rivers‚ the farming season is planned around the floods‚ rice is a main crop and requires large quantities of water. Also‚ when the river floods it leaves behind fertile silt. write about how soils‚ vegetation
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Able to grow in poor soil conditions (less fertile and more acidic soil)- enables commercial woodland to be sited in areas not particularly suitable for intensive agriculture. disadvantages The high density of softwood forest planting decreases diversity. Hard wood forest Advantages Indigenous hardwood forests‚ eg ash and oak provides greater variety of habitats and increased biodiversity compared to introduced larch and spruce. Decomposition of leaves provide soil with nutrients disadvantages
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