All Organisms Depend on Their Environment

In our experiment our team answered the question, “Why do living organism respond to their environment factors?” using pill bugs or Armadillidiidae. Our purpose to answer the question is to understand the characteristics of a living organism. Specifically, the characteristic of how Living Things Respond to Their Environment. Our hypotenuses that where that if the pill bug is exposed to water, then the pill bug will be close to water; If the pill exposed to heat, then the pill bugs will stay a distance and our third hypotenuse is if the pill bugs is exposed to a stable environment exposed to nothing, then it will search for a suitable environment. The purpose of using pill bugs is to have a creature that can be manipulated and record data easily.

Pollution is one of the most concerning topics to talk about in today's modern world. It acts as a poison for anything that lives and breathes; it could toxify water, air, land, humans, and animals, and is not to be taken lightly.

Environmental pollution can adversely influence the ecosystem by minimizing the health and safety of the neighboring environment much needed for the organisms’ to existence. Habitat destruction is the second hazard that comes from human life increasing. To maintain human’s keep living, it is required to create regions for urban development, agriculture, and other much needed elements and pleasing living factors. Then again, the necessities to please the life of humans pose a threat to the life of organisms in the particular area. In the temperate forest ecosystem, numerous abiotic features play a part of its continued existence between the local organisms. The abiotic factors, which are nonliving factors that affect living organisms, are example things like its weather, light source, temperature, soil, minerals, air and water. The combination of these elements aid in the survival of the ecosystem alone and provide certain survival of the organisms in the environment (Viau, 2000). The organisms in the temperate forest ecosystem have undergone adjustments to assist or sustain the available resources and live through in the surrounding environment. Suitable modification ensures the survival of an organism in a particular

Environmental healthcare addresses all the chemical, physical and biological factors that are external to an individual as well as the related factors impacting behaviors. It is comprised of assessment and control of those environmental hazards that can potentially affect health leading to disease and medical conditions such as asthma and cancer (Knight, 2006). These environmental hazards such as chemical wastes have devastating effects on the quality of air, water and soil of regions affected. In my area, Orlando, Florida, there are various environmental hazards that have affected the quality of water, air and soil. According to various analysis carried out in Orlando, Florida on the quality of its air, water and soil, most of them have shown that the quality has been affected. In comparison of the recent analysis with those of past years, the quality of this matter has been

Agricultural societies were sedentary, which means the members lived in one place for pretty much their whole life. As a result of this, the waste products that were produced by the people build up and were hard to eliminate safely. This was definitely not an issue for hunter-gatherer and pastoral societies, as they were always on the move so filth was just left in one area while the grouped moved on. Pollution accumulation is a vast problem across the world, that was started at the beginning of agriculture. It has detrimental effect on people and the environment. When I was driving by a large lake in my town, I noticed that there were several bottles, cans, plastic bags, and other waste things. The only way this happened is because many people settled in this area since agriculture requires a stationary lifestyle. Prior to the Agricultural Revolution, humans would leave a little waste behind and move on, which barely had an affect on the environment. My local library had records on the fertilizers and pesticides used in the area over the last few decades, and I realized that agriculture has demanded the use of more fertilizers to increase crop supply. This fertilizer can be washed away by rainwater, and end up in bodies of water where it can kill fish. The Agricultural Revolution is the main reason why there is such enormous amounts of

Paul Hawken addresses the effects of industrialization in the world today. He depicts that the environment is degraded by the economic systems who aimlessly utilizes resources for unintended purposes while at the same time releasing toxic chemicals into the environment. The economic system does not adopt the natural cycle of activities whereby wastes turn out to be food to some microorganisms in the environment. According to Paul Hawken, the economic system has played a negative role in disrupting the natural cycle. In a natural cycle ecosystems, there are no wastes since everything is fully recycled (Bunker and Hawken, 1995). However, a closer look at the other side of the economic ecosystem, things are totally different since everything seems to take an artificial path. If the economic ecosystem mimicked the natural ecosystem, pollution would not be a huge problem as it is currently. Floods and landslides would not be rampant in the world. Just like the ozone layer would have been intact.

The customary idea of the environment is human focused, with everything that encompasses (surrounds) us characterized as the environment. Then again, science characterizes the earth as a mind boggling arrangement of living things and natural processes and the human species only one player in this web- albeit with significant impacts to the environment (Maxwell, 2014). Environmental health encompasses chemical, biological, and physical hazards and thus is not limited to industrial pollution as many often associate environmental health with.

Scientists have been undergoing studies to determine ways organisms change to adapt to their changing environment. Most research and theories are determining that species are not going to be able to evolve fast enough to undergo the climate changing. This topic is making people wonder, since animals might be having difficulty evolving to their environment fast enough, are humans going to have the same problem. Scientists apply the theory of evolution to the impacts that climate change will have on the diversity and distribution of species by analyzing how quickly the species are adapting to different climates (Stolte, 2013). Scientist are using evolutionary biology to make informed decisions to solve the problem by comparing their rates of evolution to the rates of climate change (Stolte, 2013). Most scientists are studying to determine if species will evolve fast enough to be able to survive as the climate is changing rapidly. Species have been moving to accommodate with the change, as a consequence becoming invasive species. Species need to change to their behaviours as well so they can keep up with the climate change.

Transportation by fuel-guzzling land, water, and air vehicles is rapidly depleting the fossil fuels, and causing air pollution. The flow from industries, fertilizer run off, and oil spills all hurt delicate ecosystems. Removing trees and other plants to grow places of civilization causes loss and treats the survival of many species of animals and plants. There are many negative impacts along with population explosion. Using chemical fertilizers, insecticides,

Pollution is a common place everywhere in the world, the phrase is used for many global issues in various forms. Air pollution is a change in the stratosphere which causes adaption to the air, physical, biological, and chemical gasses. This happens when pollutants released into the air which comes in many different forms such as; gases, smoke, and dusts. The process leads to difficulty for the natural air to breathe because it is contaminated as there are two various forms of air pollution; visible air pollution and invisible air pollution. Some causes and effects of air pollution are; burning of fossil fuels, mining operations, indoor air pollution, agriculture activities, global warming, acid rain, and depletion of Ozone layer to name a few. Air pollution is linked to many health related issues. One location I focused my study on was the health of the Chippewa people in Sarnia Ontario and the documentary film “Toxic Trespass”.

In simpler terms, ecosystems are a community of certain species that live amongst each other and have the perfect harmony and balance in order to survive. Many ecosystems are often affected by pollution. In fact, if any important plant or animal that is crucial to the balance and existence of the ecosystem, happens to be affected by pollutants that reach the ground or are inhaled from the atmosphere, the ecosystem might collapse and might create a misbalance among other ecosystems (Parks 22). The misbalance of ecosystems not only creates a rupture in the balance of one ecosystem but in many other ecosystems. For example, if a seed happens to be polluted by an extreme pollutant, released by a manufacturing plant, the effects can be altering due to the fact that the animal that regularly feeds off the plant will probably not have enough source of food in order to survive. Moreover, the seed will most likely not grow into a fruit bearing tree or a vegetable bearing plant, and most importantly, if humans often feed on this type of fruit or vegetable then the environment will be disrupted by a major fault in the process of an

Factory farms are becoming one of our main sources of pollution to our planet. The concentrated, massive amount of animals in one place requires much resources, generates a huge amount of wastes which are highly harmful to the surrounding environment. Furthermore, only a small fraction of feed additives in intensive animal agriculture is metabolized in the animal’s body, while the rest goes unchanged into the urine and manure. “Indiscriminate use of arsenic compounds in agricultural activities during the 20th century has caused widespread soil pollution” (Liu 273). The soil in the areas is in such a poor condition that it is no longer fertile. The concentrated waste of the animals has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the rivers nearby

Pollution is a serious global issue that has been occurring for as long as humans have inhabited the planet. There are many different varieties of pollution, as well as an abundance of materials, both natural and synthetic, that the earth has been contaiminated with. Shifrin ( 2005), states: “To date, wastes remain a fact of life and there are only three places to dispose of wastes-air, water, or land. Waste management always involves tradeoffs.” (p. 676). Even though Shifrin is correct in his analysis, it does not excuse the amount of environmental poison that continues to exist today, nor the amount of environmental problems that it has caused throughout history. The “tradeoffs” of pollution have devastated entire communities, causing waves of sickness and death in their wake. According to Shifrin (2005):” Water-borne contagious disease still caused devastating epidemics in the early 1900s, compounded by growing, congested populations. Air pollution also grew to a high priority by midcentury because its impact was so observable and immediate.” (p. 676). Generally, these diseases were spread through poor sanitary practices as well as the overwhelming volume of pollution that was generated by so many indivduals with little knowledge about what the adverse effects on the overall environment would be.

One of the most significant concerns that have existed in the ecosystem for decades now is the issue of pollution. Pollution in itself is the destruction of the normal concentration and manifestation of factors such as water, soil, air and others in the ecosystem. This destruction largely arises from the human activities that often lead to misbalance, increased wastes concentration and improper positioning of the necessary and unnecessary additions to the environment. This often leads to the destruction of biodiversity, which is an important balance to the whole cycle of living organisms in that they support each other for their co-existence. If at all the number of animals reduce in the world to a very small number then a threat is posed to the living organisms since it will translate to it having to reduce also (Turner 2014).

The consumption of some goods and services results to ecological degradation more than we may realize. The things that we purchase contribute directly or indirectly to pollution, climate change, resources depletion and biodiversity loss. Ecological degradation refers to the “deterioration in environmental quality from ambient concentrations of pollutants and other activities and processes such as improper land use and natural disasters” (OECD, 1997). Ecological degradation is in most cases a result of socioeconomically, institutional and technological activities. The resources that are affected include water, soil and air. The degradation also impacts our wildlife,