A terrestrial ecosystem is an ecosystem found only on land. There were six primary terrestrial ecosystems which are tundra, taiga, temperate broadleaf forest, tropical rain forest, grassland and desert. Terrestrial environments are segmented into a subterranean portion from which most water and ions are obtained. An atmospheric portion from which gases are obtained and the physical energy of light is transformed into the organic energy of carbon-carbon bonds through the process of…
An aquatic ecosystem is a community of organisms that live within a body of water such as freshwater system or a saltwater system. The application of understanding aquatic ecosystems is how species adapt and inhabit a specific body of water that they reside in and the role that different water systems play in the survival of these various species. It is also important to understand the biodiversity within aquatic ecosystems to recognize why and how a wide range of diverse species can maintain a…
endangerment of so many species. Global warming has become a threat to future generations, and the signs have been made clear of this. The transgressions and their harms are endless. The world has been invaded by the human species and the entire biosphere suffers the magnitudes of these…
Palm oil is an essential ingredient for the production of foods and products which human utilise daily. Orangutan Project states ‘palm oil is derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree’, while stating how palm oil plantations is the main cause for deforestation in Indonesia. The harvest of the palm trees for the production of palm oil affects the ecosystem as it affects the environment. This investigation will highlight the advantages of the palm fruit providing nutrients, it being essential…
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives is a South Asian island country which located in the Indian Ocean. Maldives lies on southwest of India and Sri Lanka. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the South. The Maldives is one of the world’s most geographically dispersed countries, and the smallest Asian country by both land area and population. The Maldives has an area of less than 300 square kilometers and a total coastline of…
WMD’s. A Weapon of Mass Destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures, natural structures, or the biosphere. Another long-term effect caused by the introduction of the atomic bomb, arguably, is the beginning of the Cold War. The Cold War officially began in 1947 and was a confrontation nearly always conducted through “military surrogates” such as…
4 understanding of the Suns temperatures, in June of 2013, NASA launched the IRIS solar observatory. IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was launched to use imaging spectrography on the Sun. NASA’s goal was to determine “how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun 's lower atmosphere. This interface region between the Sun 's photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the…
balance of the atmospheric heat budget has been disturbed and more amount of heat has been stuck in the biosphere than usually required to control the life processes (Peter et al., 1997). After Industrial revolution, the atmospheric composition changed drastically due to the addition of the emitted greenhouse gases which have very high warming potential and long life time to existing in the biosphere (Montzka et al.,…
hear it from them to know. Harjo is encouraging us to act on this unspoken voice for it is just as important as our own. Christopher Manes writes in “Nature and Silence” that it is as if “we have compressed the entire buzzing, howling, gurgling biosphere into the narrow vocabulary of epistemology” (339). As reinforced in the poem we have ignored the sounds of nature and have placed our own needs on above it. In contrast to animistic cultures, we do not interact with nature with esteem at our…
Damnation: The Removal of Dams Project Name: Institution Affiliation: Date: Damnation This documentary focuses on the eco-system and targets the environmentally conscious public. The movie debates in regards to the United States of America (USA) as a Dam Nation and how the existence of more than 75,000 dams in USA has a negative impact on water consumption and the fish species. Knight and Rummel attempt to explain the pros and cons of dams. The movie also features the tale of salmons, which…