Hey y'all my project I'm doing pollution. My two standards I'm focusing on are ecosystems and human relationships with ecosystems.
Ecosystems A 'solid' definition of an ecosystem is "a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment." For me I will be looking at the interaction between the different types of ocean pollution-although I'll mainly focus on plastic pollution- and the creatures and people, both can be considered the organisms, who depend on the physical environment which in this case is the ocean. Pollution has a huge effect on the ecosystem of our oceans, and although many people might not even think twice about it, the pollution, trash, and garbage we create has a HUGE chain reaction on the ocean. So one tiny change in the oceans ecosystems, can lead to changes in all of its other things. For example, plastic pollution can upset the food chain, it can effect the tiniest organisms such as plankton which are poisoned due to plastic pollution. This can cause problems for larger animals such as fish, who depend on them as food. Not even that, people who EAT the fish, who have eaten the poisoned plankton, now have ingested plastic themselves. Human Relationships with Ecosystems Just like I mentioned in the paragraph above the changes pollution causes in the oceans ecosystems can have an effect on human life, people are eating the plastic that the fish themselves have ingested, but also something that I didn't mention above was the lost of resources in the ocean that people might depend on. But I also will be focusing on something more positive, like solutions we as people can do to prevent the amount of pollution we create. A way that is very basic, is for people to start using reusable shopping bags. Grocery stores can start a policy that you can only use reusable shopping bags-which as annoying as this sounds will benefit the ocean, which benefits us, and in a way becomes its own mini ecosystem. This is some information about my two subtopics thank you for reading! Sources: http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/ http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/
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