ECOLOGY 1
Ecology
Human activity causing Climate change
Ecology involves the study of how animals and other organisms are interdependently related to the earth. The stable functioning of the elements is referred to us the ecosystem. The earth is made of different components ensuring that every organism functions to its maximum for the maintenance of the ecosystem. The components include the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. The hydrosphere is made of water, geosphere, entailing the hard and rocky structure of the earth, the atmosphere made of air and biosphere is made of living organisms. Failure of one component to function ideally, the other components will consequently receive negative effects (Chen, 2016).
The human activities have resulted in the dramatic global climate change. The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas has been fluctuating over the years. Most parts of California for instance, experience reduced temperature levels due to the reduced levels of carbon dioxide. The gas is important for the trapping of heat in the atmosphere and that is useful in the cultivation of different plants and provision of heat for a conducive environment for animals. The geosphere undergoes dynamic changes whereby the periods for ice formation are altered. During seasons of high temperature, there is less or no ice formation. Regolith, a layer of dust, forms on the surface of the moon where ice forms. The ice then melts upon alteration of the earth orbit and that causes climate instability in the atmosphere (Brisman, 2013).
The geological processes are most affected by the change in human activities such as industrialization and deforestation. Furthermore, the greenhouses trap the amount of heat which need to be released to the atmosphere for a complete ecosystem. That demands more research on how to maintain the ecosystem by monitoring both physical and natural activities occurring on the surface of the earth (Sharp, 2017).
References
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Chen, B. (2016). Energy, ecology, and environment: a nexus perspective.
Sharp, T. (2017). Earth’s Atmosphere: Composition, Climate & Weather. Space. com, October, 13.