Essay On Great Lakes Ecosystem

When was the last time you swam in the Great Lakes? Could you say that it was clean, could you say that the organisms were all healthy and doing great? Well, unfortunately, there are many things harming our Great Lakes, like chemicals, pollution, and invasive species.

Claim: Pollution could affect wildlife like fish, birds, and others by hurting or killing them due to trash or litter stuck in weeds or floating above the water in the air.

Pollution is the presence of dangerous and unwanted substances in the ecosystem that causes imbalance and health hazards to the living. Water pollution is the presence of unwanted substances or particles in water, which causes imbalance in water systems. Lake Huron is among the largest fresh water sources in the States located in North America.

Pollution can cause changes in the planet’s energy balance, such as changes in the greenhouse effect, which affects the amount of heat retained by Earth’s atmosphere, variations in the sun’s energy reaching Earth changes in the reflectivity of Earth’s atmosphere and surface. The changes have changed the climate many times which have an effect on humans also. (NRC EPA. 2010) Our planet can is good at reusing waste but humans are producing more than what the Earth can handle. Pollution happened at different stages and it has an impact on all living things including species and humans. Unfortunately, humans are the most polluting species.

Pollution contributes majorly in harming the Australian aquatic ecosystems. Simple examples include throwing rubbish on the streets. As soon as rubbish is left on the ground, it goes to the ocean thought the sewage system and rain. These days, many plastic materials are used and thrown out. Unfortunately, species assume these rubbish as food chocking themselves until they die. Many species are effected this way. Other global pollution impacts include oil spillage. Oil are common these days and which is used as a vital resource. It is common to see oil floating on the surface of oceans. These resources soon effect the ecosystem by polluting habitats of many

The polluted water supply that results can become harmful to humans. Aquatic life quickly suffers the effects of watershed pollution.

When it comes to nature, trees, rivers, the sky, air pollution also affect the environment. Air pollution can harm the ecosystem. “Nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide cause eutrophication and acidification of lakes and streams, damaging ecosystems” (Melamed et al, 2016). This can harm the environment and contribute to the human health problems. We drink water, and water plants with water. Even more particulate matter interact with cloud formation processes and may impact the amount and location of precipitation (Melamed et al, 2016). This is the reason of flooding and water problems.

More than 20 football fields of trees are removed each minute. Logging can affect plants and animals by losing their homes. Predator - prey relationships will alter which can then cause a trophic cascade by overpopulation from the prey or extinction of predators. Also keystone species could be removed by these factors. So these living and nonliving factors could affect an ecosystem in many ways. Changes affect the ecosystem strongly in ways which population could boost in biodiversity or severely diminish the population of both plants and animals.

Pollution has a really bad effect on the ecosystem. It can be harmful to the animals; from poisoning, to losing a body part, or even death. It can kill the local plant life, and affect us. Now you tell me, would you want to live and raise your kids in a filthy, polluted place that is not good for any

Glaciers are formed in places where there is adequate snowfall and cold temperatures; specifically, the area needs to have temperatures that are less than 32* F and more snow than is able to melt in the summer. Present-day, glaciers only form in high latitudes and high elevations. However, 14,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene Ice Age, Michigan was covered by a mile-and-half-mile deep glacier. Over thousands of years, the temperatures alternated from warm to cool, causing the glaciers to retreat and advance. As glaciers traveled this way, they took the path of least resistance. This caused the glaciers to move south from modern-day Canada, along the riverbeds that existed where the Great Lakes now

Lake Erie is vary imported to but yet we keep messing it up. We messing by putting pollution in Lake Erie and if it's a hot day algae can bloom and could mess up the water system and make fish swim away and you won't be able drink water or take a bath and a lot of animals the that use Lake Erie as a ecosystem. Lake Erie is dead with no fish because the pollution is so bad that the fish swam away from Lake Erie and the water is unsafe to drink.

One clear factor are runoffs.Clearly this is one major issue that needs to addressed since we keep having to address this issue whenever we discuss our oceans. Dangerous chemicals are reaching our water impacting the ecosystem at each level. Sea Otters were once near-extinction by the early 20th century due human hunting. Since then we have put in place numerous acts to prevent this from occurring. Although these changes helped bring populations numer back up we are witnessing a weather rapid decline once more in their population due to the number of kale farms decreasing. The reason for kale’s decrease seems to be the warming of our ocean seas. Both these issues are recurring whenever we discuss our ocean's decline.

Aquatic habitats in the Great Plains region were historically dominated by rivers and streams with associated wetlands and few natural lakes. Native fishes are typically riverine species that are in many cases adapted to strong current, turbid water, and a wide range of water temperatures. However, many species that require clear water and cool temperatures are found as relict populations in springs and headwater streams. The native and introduced fish fauna are an important link in food chains for many species and are significant economic resources for many communities.

The reserve mining needed to have public intervention because of negative externalities of production. One of the externalities was the pollution of Lake Superior. This cost is external to the firm and external to the supply and demand price system. The externalities are not reflected in the supply curve and private business firms do not have to take the special cost supply curve into account. These private businesses not taking it into account are the reason the government has to get involved. The principle of perfection was used in the 1970s in LA. This is not a very good approach because cost is not taken into consideration.

Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water; and, in almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities.