Prelims

Enhancing civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth

Provide military training to tertiary level students, to motivate, train, organize & mobilize for national defense preparedness

Train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school youth children, out-of-school youth, other segments of society in need of service

General welfare and betterment of life, enhancement of its facilities

Students of any baccalaureate degree or 2yr technical vocational course shall be required to complete one of NSTP components

ROTC may be required if have at least 350 cadet students

Foreign students or alien are exempted in taking any of the 3 NSTP components

Students who finished in 2005 are exempted from taking any NSTP components

Who are exempted in taking any NSTP components

NSTP should only be taken for a period of 1 semester

During Spanish colonial years there was a training course presently known as …. @ ….

NSTP did not start until…. started when military instructions were conducted @ UP

Law issued by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos

Act that is obligatory to all citizens of the Philippines

What are the 3 main programs of Presidential Decree 1706?

What Republic Act is the Citizen Armed Force of Armed Forces of the Phils. Reservist Act

Who issued National Service Law

Causes of Environmental Degradation

4 major components of environment

Derived from French word w/c means surrounding

in an ecosystem including all living things like human beings, plants, animals, microbes etc

All nonliving things in an ecosystem

5 concentric layers

Understand nature and abide by the rules nature dictates, one must not go against the natural process if one would like to ensure a continuous and steady supply of resources

All living things must be considered as invaluable

All biotic and amniotic interact with each other to ensure the system is perpetuated. Any interference may result in an imbalance and deterioration of system

The only permanent thing is change, it may be linear, cyclical, or random. Environment is constantly changing. Organisms evolve through time.

Smokestacks may disperse but it will end up a component of the atmosphere brought down by rains. Waste are not lost to oblivion, it even goes back to backyard in some other forms.

Earth’s resources can can be classifies as renewable or non-renewable. Can and cannot be replenished through natural cycles.

Can easily be replenished by natural cycles (e.g. water, air, plants, & animals)

Cannot be replenished through natural cycles (e.g. metals, oil, coal)

Treaties, statutes, regulations, common & customary laws addressing effects of human activity on natural environment

Humans are capable of manipulating creation to their own advantage, yet creation exists not to be ravaged or abused but taken care of. Humans cannot exist without nature.

Formally established in 1978 Presidential decree no. 1586 to facilitate attainment and maintenance of rational and orderly balance between socio-economic development & environmental protection

Restrict or prohibit importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use, and disposal of chemical substances, mixtures, present unreasonable risk to human health. Prohibits entry of hazardous & nuclear waste their disposal to Philippines territorial limits

Achieve and maintain clean air that meets the national air quality guideline throughout the Philippines while minimizing possible associates impacts to the economy

Aims to adopt a systematic, comprehensive, ecological solid waste management program

Protect country’s water bodies from pollution from land-based resources to prevent and minimize pollution

Integrate environmental education in its school curricula at all levels, public or private

Deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources, destruction of ecosystem, habitat, extinction of wildlife and pollution

Process of making land, water, air, other parts of environment dirty. Unsafe to use. Introduction of a contaminant into a natural environment

Release particles into air from burning fuels, dangerous gases, sulfur oxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical vapors

Household garbage and industrial waste. Consisting of product packaging, glass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, and paint

Chemicals or dangerous foreign substances introduced to water. Chemicals, sewage, pesticides, fertilizers. Metals like lead or mercury

Sound coming from planes, industry, reaches harmful levels. Links between noise and health, illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, hearing loss. Pollution coming from ships upset whales navigation systems & kill other species that depend on underwater world.

Some birds sing at unnatural hours in presence of artificial light which can affect migration schedules & longer feeding times. Can confuse hatched sea turtles that rely on starlight, may head in the wrong direction. Difficult for astronomers to see the stars. Plants flowering & development patterns disrupted by artificial light. Making smog worse destroying nitrate radicals that helps dispersion of smog.

Major cause of the world’s problems. Threatening to rise in the next decades 8 to 10 billion

Permanent destruction of forests to make land available for other uses

Over harvesting to the point of diminishing returns. Can lead to destruction or resource.

Environment are constantly changing over time. Land slides, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, & wildfires can destroy local plant & animal communities where they can no longer function