PROTECTING ECOSYSTEMS

SARAH

• How can you protect your ecosystem?
• Turn off your lights
• Carpool
• Dont litter
• Recycle

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NATALIE

• Renewable resources- respirces replaced by natural processes faster thsn they are consumed .
• Nonrenewable reasource- replaced by natural processes pver an extremely ling period of time.
• Sustainable use- using resources at a rate in which they can be replaced or recycled.
• Endemic- species that are found in a specific geographic area.
• Bioremediation- the use of living organisms, such as prokaryotes, fungi, or plants fo detoxify a polluted area.

NATALIE

• Biological augmentation
• Adding natural preditors fo a degraded ecosystem .

PARKER

• You could save this animal if you would stop littering...and drink cokes.

BRYCE

• Ecosystems are essential to our well-being and prosperity as they provide us with food, clean air and fresh water.
• Ecosystems also represent an exceptional source of outdoor recreation opportunities.
• The functions performed by ecosystems that increase our well-being are called ecosystem services.

Factories like this are damaging our ecosystem and making it unlivable for some species.