Global Human Population Growth and Environmental Impact

Improved technology leading to an abundance of food and improved medicine, hygiene, and health care.

It combines with haemoglobin in red blood cells, preventing them from carrying oxygen.

Mostly released via car emissions.

<p>Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As more resources are used to sustain the growing human population, more waste is produced and more pollution is created.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damage to leaves, roots, buds, flowers of trees and other plants, and death of certain organisms in rivers and lakes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rotting plants in marshlands, rice growing, and cattle rearing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Combustion of fossil fuels for carbon dioxide and cattle digestion and rice paddy fields for methane.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>CFCs are powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to the enhanced greenhouse effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Sun's rays enter the Earth's atmosphere and the heat bounces back from the Earth's surface, leading to an increase in Earth's average temperature.</p> Signup and view all the answers