Keeping our environment clean and healthy is important because it helps prevents harm to all biotic factors on earth. There are different types of pollution. But any type still has negative effects towards this earth. When pollution occurs, “pollution affects everything that lives on earth” (Gray). Air, water, and soil pollution have many effects on humans, animals, trees and plants.
Pollution Effects on Humans
Pollution can have physical, psychological and behavioral effects on humans.
The physical effects of air pollution can include
The damage occurs to the fetus in the womb
If our soil becomes polluted it can cause physical conditions.
Pollution Effects on Animals
Animals are also affected by pollution physically.
Air pollution caused to animals can include,
Water pollution has been known to cause
Animals are in a world of predator and prey. Their lives consist of a food chain. Soil pollution can physically change that.
A couple effects found in soil pollution consist of
When a person thinks of pollution not only humans and animals come to mind, but the environment. Earth is what we live and strive on. Damaging our environment is lessening our chances for a longer future on earth.
Starting with the effects of air pollution on trees and plants will show what physical effects air pollution include.
Acid rain can
Water pollution can interrupt the process of photosynthesis in aquatic plants which affects the ecosystems that depend on them, cause death, and pass pollutants up the food chain (Gray).
Trees and plants grow from the earth and in the earth contain soil.
Soil pollution can negatively affect them. Soil pollution can change their metabolism and decrease crop yields and also pass contaminants up the food chain (Gray).
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Pollution Effects on Humans
Pollution can have physical, psychological and behavioral effects on humans.
The physical effects of air pollution can include
- reduced lung function, irritation of eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
- asthma, bronchitis, coughing and wheezing (Gray).
- Organisms in bacteria like hookworms and typhoid can be found in polluted in drinking water.
- hepatitis, encephalitis, and gastroenteritis.
The damage occurs to the fetus in the womb
- “may cause neurological problems including slower reflexes, learning deficits, delayed or incomplete mental development, autism and brain damage”.
- “Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, and even death” (Gray).
If our soil becomes polluted it can cause physical conditions.
- Contaminated soil can causes certain cancers like leukemia.
- High mercury levels found in soil can increase the risk of kidney damage and liver toxicity (Gray).
Pollution Effects on Animals
Animals are also affected by pollution physically.
Air pollution caused to animals can include,
- death to fishes in small bodies of water (lakes and streams), skin cancer caused by too much UV radiation from the sun, and Lung tissue damage from the troposphere (refer to paragraph 4) (Gray).
Water pollution has been known to cause
- death, outbreaks of fish diseases, a downfall, death or abnormality in fish life, bad effects to development of marine organisms, higher chance of catching diseases, liver and kidney damage, and nervous system damage.
Animals are in a world of predator and prey. Their lives consist of a food chain. Soil pollution can physically change that.
A couple effects found in soil pollution consist of
- alteration in metabolism, a destruction of primary food chain layers, conflicting effect to predator animal species, harmful chemicals carried up the food chain possibly leading animal extinction (Gray).
When a person thinks of pollution not only humans and animals come to mind, but the environment. Earth is what we live and strive on. Damaging our environment is lessening our chances for a longer future on earth.
Starting with the effects of air pollution on trees and plants will show what physical effects air pollution include.
Acid rain can
- “kill trees, destroy the leaves of plants, can infiltrate soil by making it unsuitable for purposes of nutrition and habitation”.
- Damage to the trees and plants are caused by excessive UV radiation from the sun entering the earth.
- a possibility blockage of stomata “opening in leaves” from the lower ozone not giving trees and plants enough respiration (Gray).
Water pollution can interrupt the process of photosynthesis in aquatic plants which affects the ecosystems that depend on them, cause death, and pass pollutants up the food chain (Gray).
Trees and plants grow from the earth and in the earth contain soil.
Soil pollution can negatively affect them. Soil pollution can change their metabolism and decrease crop yields and also pass contaminants up the food chain (Gray).
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