Bienvenidos chicos y chicas de grado Décimo al trabajo virtual. por medio de esta entrada, podrás continuar con los temas expuestos previamente sobre ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS y realizar algunas actividades adicionales para mejorar tu desempeño.
Desempeño a trabajar: Comprender, traducir y analizar las preocupaciones ambientales de hoy en día, siendo autónomo en tú trabajo y resolviendo situaciones de acuerdo a los diversos elementos presentados.
Actividad 1:
Traducir la siguiente lectura por párrafos en tú cuaderno, pegar imágenes alusivas a los problemas ambientales expuestos y sacar un vocabulario con las palabras más relevantes del tema.
Environmental Concerns
Our Mother
Earth is currently facing lot of environmental concerns. The environmental
problems like global warming,
acid rain, air pollution, urban sprawl, waste disposal, ozone layer depletion,
water pollution, climate change and many more affect every human, animal and
nation on this planet. Over the last few decades, the exploitation of our planet
and degradation of our environment have gone up at an alarming rate. As
our actions have been not in favor of protecting this planet, we have seen
natural disasters striking us more often in the form of flash floods, tsunamis
and cyclones.
Different environmental
groups around the world play their role in educating people as to how their
small actions when combined together can play a big role in in protecting this
planet. If you look at the environment around us, you can see that there are a
number of issues that come to our attention. Here are 19 of the most important
environmental concerns to keep an eye on today.
19 Environmental Concerns
1. Air Pollution: Pollution
of air, water and soil take a
huge number of years to recover. Industry and engine vehicle fumes are the most
obvious toxins. Substantial metals, nitrates and plastic are poisons in charge
of pollution. While water contamination is brought about by oil slicks, acid
rain, and urban sprawl; air contamination is created by different gasses and
poisons discharged by businesses and manufacturing plants and burning of fossil
fills; soil contamination is majorly created by mechanical waste that takes
supplements out of the soil.
2. Water Pollution: Clean
drinking water is turning into an uncommon thing. Water is turning into a
monetary and political concern as the human populace battles for this need. Waste
from industrial and agricultural activities pollutes the water that is used by
humans, animals and plants.
3: Soil and Land Pollution: Land
pollution simply means
degradation of earth’s surface as a result of human activities like mining,
littering, deforestation, industrial, construction and agricultural activities.
Land pollution can have huge environmental impact in the form of air pollution
and soil pollution which in turn can have adverse effect on human health.
4. Climate Change: Climate
change is yet another
environmental concern that has surfaced in last couple of decades.
Environmental change has different destructive impacts that include, but are
not limited to, the melting of polar ice, change in seasons, new sicknesses,
and change in general climate situation.
5. Global Warming: Environmental
asset abuse is also an important environmental concern. Fossil fuel utilization
brings about discharge of greenhouse gasses, which causes environmental change.
However, individuals are taking endeavors to move to renewable energy sources.
6. Deforestation: Our
woodlands create new oxygen and additionally help in managing temperature and
precipitation. At present, timberlands cover 30% of the area, but wooded areas
are being lost on a regular basis because people are looking for homes, food,
and materials. Deforestation is a huge problem and will just continue to
get worse.
7. Increased Carbon Footprint: Temperature increases, like climate change, are the consequence of
human practices, including the use of greenhouse gasses. When the atmosphere
changes and the heat increases, it can cause a number of problems and start to
destroy the world we live in.
8. Genetic Modification: Genetic
modification utilizing
biotechnology is called genetic engineering. Genetic engineering of food brings
about expanded poisons and sicknesses as qualities from a hypersensitive plant
can exchange to target plant. Some of these crops can even be a threat to the
world around us, as animals start to ingest the unnatural chemicals and such.
9. Effect on Marine Life: The
amount of carbon in the water and the atmosphere is continuing to be a problem
in the world around us. The primary effect is on shellfish and microscopic
fish, and it has similar effects to osteoporosis in humans.
10. Public Health Issues: The
current environmental concerns represent a considerable measure of danger to
well-being of people, and creatures. Dirty water is the greatest well-being
danger of the world and poses a risk to the health and lifespan of people and
animals.
11. Overpopulation: The
number of inhabitants in the planet is arriving at unsustainable levels as it confronts
deficiency of assets like water, fuel and food. Overpopulation is one of the most important environmental
concerns.
12: Loss of Biodiversity: Biodiversity is yet another casualty due to the impact of
human beings on the environment. It is the result of 3.5 billion years of
evolution. Habitat destruction is a major cause for biodiversity loss. Habitat
loss is caused by deforestation, overpopulation, pollution and global warming.
13. Household and Industrial Waste: The over utilization of assets and formation of plastics are
making a worldwide emergency of waste transfer. Developed nations are infamous
for creating an unreasonable measure of waste or junk and dumping their waste
in the seas and, less created nations.
14. Ozone Layer Depletion: The
ozone layer is an undetectable layer of protection around the planet that
secures us from the sun’s unsafe beams. Depletion of the critical Ozone layer
of the air is credited to contamination brought about by Bromide and Chlorine
found in Chlorofloro carbons (CFC’s). When these poisonous gasses each the
upper parts of the atmosphere, they cause a gap in the ozone layer, the
greatest of which is over the Antarctic.
15. Mining: Mining
results in extraction of minerals from earth’s core. These minerals also bring
out harmful chemicals from deep inside the earth to the earth’s surface. The
toxic emissions from mining can cause air, water and soil
pollution.
16: Natural Disasters: Natural
disasters like earthquakes,
floods, tsunamis, cyclones, volcanic eruption can be unpredictable, devastating
and can cause irreparable damage. They can cause huge loss of life and property
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17. Acid Rain: Acid rain happens because of the vicinity of specific
poisons in the climate. Corrosive downpour might be brought about because of
use of fossil fuels or volcanoes or spoiling vegetation which discharge sulfur
dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.
18. Urban Sprawl: Urban
sprawl alludes to relocation
of populace from high thickness urban ranges to low density provincial zones
which bring about spreading of city over more rustic area. Urban sprawl brings
about expanded movement, environmental concerns and well-being concerns.
19: Littering and Landfills: Littering simply means disposal of piece of garbage or debris
improperly or at wrong location usually on the ground instead of disposing
them at trash container or recycling bin. Littering can cause huge environmental and economic impact in the form of spending
millions of dollars to clean the garbage of road that pollute the clean air.
Landfills on
the other hand are nothing but huge garbage dumps that make the city look ugly
and produce toxic gases that could prove fatal for humans and animals.
Landfills are generated due to large amount of waste that is generated by
households, industries and healthcare centers every day.
EVALUACIÓN: Presentar la actividad 1 en su cuaderno ordenado y enviar foto de evidencia.
Actividad 2:
observar el siguiente vídeo para complementar la información de la lectura anterior.
EVALUACIÓN: DESARROLLA EN TU CUADERNO LAS PREGUNTAS QUE APARECEN AL FINAL DEL VÍDEO.
Actividad 3:
Con la ayuda de tú familia o grupo de trabajo hacer un aviso en triples alusivo a la protección del medio ambiente o a las preocupaciones ambientales, para ubicarlo en las zonas verdes de la institución.
EVALUACIÓN: Presentar el aviso y enviar foto de evidencia.
Actividad 4:
Por medio de esta entrada podrás repasar los temas expuestos previamente (Futuro con will y going to) y realizar algunas actividades adicionales para mejorar tu desempeño.
