ecological problems
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Ecological Problems. Biological Magnification. Increase or concentration of a substance, such as the pesticide DDT, in a food chain. OZONE DEPLETION. CFC’s are commonly used as: Refrigerants Styrofoams Solvents Aerosols. OZONE DEPLETION. Ozone protects the earth from harmful UVB rays. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ecological Problems
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Biological magnification
• is the tendency of pollutants to become concentrated in successive trophic levels
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The "best" example
• of biomagnification comes from DDT.
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Plane Spraying DDT
• The chemical pesticide DDT was used around the world from the 1940s through the early 1970s to kill crop-eating and disease-carrying insects.
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DDT
• pesticide
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Biological Magnification
Increase or concentration of a substance, such as the pesticide DDT, in a food chain.
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Silent Spring (1962)Silent Spring (1962)
• Describes how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage.
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Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
• Silent Springbrought a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention.
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OZONE DEPLETION
• CFC’s are commonly used as:
• Refrigerants
• Styrofoams
• Solvents
• Aerosols
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BANNED
• In the early 1960s studies began to show that the chemical caused reproductive problems in animals and that it often disrupted the food chain. The use of DDT was banned in the United States in 1973.
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BANNED
• In the early 1960s studies began to show that the chemical caused reproductive problems in animals and that it often disrupted the food chain. The use of DDT was banned in the United States in 1973.
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OZONE
• O + O2 -> O3
• Forms naturally in the stratosphere
• Acts as protecting the earth from UV radiation
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OZONE DEPLETION
• Ozone protects the earth from harmful UVB rays.
• It has been thinning over Antarctica.
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OZONEO3
• UV rays split
Oxygen that add to O2 to make O3
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OZONE DEPLETION
• Ozone = 03 CFC = CCl4
Cl breaks off an oxygen from ozone
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Ozone Thinning Culprit: CFC’s
• Chlorofluorocarbons) are synthetic gases in which the hydrogen atoms of methane are replaced by atoms of fluorine and chlorine (e.g., CHF2Cl, CFCl3, CF2Cl2).
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Why McDonalds changed to paper containers.
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Should the School Use Styrofoam Lunch Trays?
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What is being done?
• Montreal Protocol in 1987 ultimately aiming to reduce CFC’s by half by the year 2000.
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Ozone Depletion Kills Krill (baleen whale food source)
Krill is a zooplankton
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• Krill are dramatically affected by UVB rays.
Reports show an 80% drop in the Population of zooplanction off the coast of southern California.
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GLOBAL WARMING: Thegreenhouse effect
• is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, for example) trap energy from the sun.
• Greenhouse Effect Animation
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GLOBAL WARMING: SEA LEVELS RISE
• Reuters AlertNet - VIDEO: Rising seas threaten the Maldives
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DEFORESTATION
• Loss of Forests
REPLANT
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“Slash and Burn”
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Erosion in Madagascar due to Deforestation
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Rainforest Natives
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Burned landscape from "Slash and Burn" deforestation
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Erosion is More Likely with Deforestation
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ACID RAIN
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• Acid rain occurs when these gases react in the atmosphere with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form various acidic compounds. Sunlight increases the rate of most of these reactions. The result is a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid.
• HowStuffWorks Videos "Acid Rain Videos"
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Acid Rain Origins
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pH of Acid Rain
• The pH of "normal" rain has traditionally been given a value of 5.6.
• However scientists now believe that the pH of rain may vary from 5.6 to a low of 4.5 with the average value of 5.0.
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Water Species Water Tolerance
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Ozone Hole
• Over Antarctica a depletion of the ozone layer has been increasing
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EXTINCTION
• End of a species
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Secondary Extinction
• The extinction of the dodo bird has caused the Calviera tree to become unable to reproduce since the dodo ate the fruit and processed the seeds of that tree.
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INVASIVE SPECIES
• Non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem
Kudzu from Japan to stop erosion
Garden purple loosestrife is taking over wetlands
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ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO
• It is a carrier of dengue fever and two forms of encephalitis.
This small mosquitoarrived in
Houston in 1985, apparently in a shipment of used tires.Now is found in
at least 25 states
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Zebra Mussel
• Native to the Caspian and Black Seas, the zebra mussel hitched a ride in ballast water of a ship sometime in the mid-1980s and spread throughout the Great Lakes region and down the Mississippi.