Packed with up-to-date information and functional graphics, Human Impacts on the Environment condenses complex environmental problems into a presentation, giving you the chance to appreciate how human activity impacts the environment.

The interactive lessons reinforce connections between actions and consequences. This program will stimulate you to think and go beyond explanations about the causes, effects, and solutions to environmental problems.

Topics covered in this program include: Human History and the Environment; Population Growth; Environmental Compartments; Ozone Depletion; Global Warming; Smog; Acid Deposition; Water Pollution; Pollution Control; Habitat Destruction; Natural Resource Exploitation; Biodiversity; Extinction; Conservation Biology; and Solutions.

Presentation
The Presentation portion of this program includes audio-narrated scenes featuring the content from the objectives.





Interactive Lessons
Students can work through different activities that directly reinforce the information learned in the Presentation.

Program Objectives

I. Introduction

II. Human history and the environment

A. Hunter-gatherer groups

B. Agricultural civilizations

C. Modern civilization

1. Green Revolution

2. Population Growth

III. Environmental pollution

A. What is pollution?

1. Environmental Compartments

B. Air pollution

1. Ozone Depletion

a. Natural ozone balance

b. The ozone hole

c. CFC release and the breakdown of ozone

2. Global warming

a. Greenhouse effect

b. Human contribution to greenhouse gases

c. Climate change?

3. Smog and acid deposition

a. Industrial and photochemical smog

b. Acid deposition

C. Water pollution

1. Classifying pollutants

2. Some effects of water pollutants

D. Land pollution

E. Effects on biota

F. Pollution control

IV. Habitat destruction

V. Natural resource exploitation

A. Soil

B. Forests

C. Oceans

D. Water

E. Sustainable use of resources

VI. Loss of Biodiversity

A. An example of high biodiversity

1. What is biodiversity?

2. What is extinction?

B. Importance of biodiversity

C. Conservation biology

1. Saving individual species

2. Establishing preserves

3. Restoring ecosystems

VII. Solutions

A. What can you do?

VIII. Summary

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