Ecology | Grade 9 Science Journal Q1

Posts from the ‘Ecology’ category

The primary limiting factor in Haiti right now is deforestation and soil erosion. Deforestation means that there are less trees for the wildlife of Haiti to live in and/or around, and soil erosion means it’s more difficult for some plants which other organisms rely on…

Limiting Factors in Haiti

October 7, 2021

I have chosen Robby Mokgalaka to help us about our coal mining concerns in South Africa. He is the big man he went around and talked to the owners of the coal mining companies and said “do you know what your doing here? Your destroying…

Robby Mokgalaka

October 7, 2021

Haiti is home to a wide variety of wildlife and it is a country filled with biodiversity. Haiti is a tropical country with a mild habitat which allows many types of plants and animals to thrive there.

Food Web and Trophic Levels in Haiti

October 7, 2021

Rimma Dankova Rimma is an Senior Adviser with the FAO Investment Centre, she is an very opinionated person. She has an strong opinion with intensive shortages of water from farming and agriculture, “Agriculture is both a victim and a cause of water scarcity. Water of…

Concerns from the Community

October 6, 2021

Fikile Ntshangase Fikile Ntshangase was a 65 year old lady who lived in KwaZulu-Natal. she was concerned about the health risks about coal mining and spoke out about it. I chose Fikile Ntshangase because after speaking out about the risks of coal mining in South Africa a group of men broke into her home and she shot her. Investigators say they were part of…

Coal Mining In South Africa Activist

October 6, 2021

The group I choose was Water first, https://waterfirst.ngo/gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5dacrL2k8wIVm8izCh068QqoEAAYASAAEgLUWfD_BwE I chose water first because it is one of the top charitable organizations in Canada for fresh waters for indigenous people. 61% of the donations go to indigenous water. I activist for clean drinking water in Canada…

First nations need water

October 5, 2021

Roxane Boonstra- an activist from Canada situated in south Florida, she is in the Florida keys, she runs the Coral Restoration Foundation, (CRF) they have been restoring Florida reefs for 12 years and have planted more than 100,000 critically endangered staghorn and Elkhorn corals back into…

Alternative Activists

October 5, 2021

David Suzuki Foundation David Suzuki Foundation empowers people to take action in their communities on the environmental challenges we collectively face. David Suzuki Foundation is bringing awareness to the use of neonist that is a harmful pesticide that is affecting the decline in the bee…

It’s Time To Save The Bees…

October 4, 2021

The Natural Limiting Factors Of The Honey Bee Population Limiting Factor: The Weather The weather would be an obvious limiting factor—colonies are stressed by extreme cold, unfavorable flight weather during the spring or summer, or by lack of forage and water during droughts. Such intermittent…

Bees Inside A Fence

September 30, 2021

Coal mining in South Africa has an effect on humans in many ways. For example when coal mining makes air pollution it can give humans cancer, respiratory illness, lung disease and many more diseases which can cause death. This causes limiting factors because if it…

Coal Mining In South Africa Limiting Factor

September 30, 2021

Overpopulation means more demand for food and water more pollution and more demand for space! Pollution is the biggest problem since there’s more people and this effects our climate and our air. I know myself I wouldn’t want to be want to be living in…

Overpopulation

September 29, 2021

Soil erosion has led to many rocks and large piles of sand rolling off hills into streams and rivers below. These waterways then become clogged and decreases the amount of water flowing through that area. if the waterways are clogged fish and other species that…

Soil Erosion can affect waterways in Haiti

September 29, 2021

When humans pollute, weather that be directly, or indirectly, it creates gasses that pollute the sky, creates almost a bubble that encloses the earth and it traps the heat inside earths atmosphere and makes it really hard to get rid of, that causes climate change,…

Coral Reef Limiting Factor

September 29, 2021

If deforestation does not stop, it will affect climate change will rapidly get worse. It will increase the risks of floods, forest fires, human health impacts, agriculture yields, and damage to infrastructure. Us humans effect the ecosystem by, unsustainable forest management, mining, and much more.…

Limiting Factors in Borneo

September 29, 2021

Things that are affected by human activity starts with the giant kelp where the micro plastics land on the giant kelp. the giant kelp is then eaten by the giant kelp fish, the Norris top snail, the sea urchin, and so on and so on…

Giant Kelp Ecosystem

September 29, 2021

How does pollution affect the spheres?. Lithosphere: Pollution causes chemical substances to eat away at the lithosphere. Hydrosphere: Hydrosphere pollution can cause many diseases like malaria and even life threatening diseases in humans. Atmosphere: Air pollution can directly contaminate the surface of bodies of water…

My Ecological issue

September 27, 2021

In this food web the rabbit (a mammal that hops to get around) and the sail (a slug with a shell) eat the plant. Then the rabbit gets eaten by the hawk (a predator of the sky) and the wolf(a 4 legged animal like a…

Animal Food Web

September 27, 2021

Pesticides in farming are leeching into bodies of water, bodies of water such as ponds, rivers, lakes and oceans. pesticides can also stay in soil and water for years. pesticides can kill many things in the water like beneficial soil bacteria, earthworms, snails, frogs, fish…

Pesticides polluting our water

September 23, 2021

Many animals rely on tress and crops to feed their families and themselves. Soil erosion ruins soil that crops need to grow and produce food. Not only do animals lose their food source but some also lose their habitats. Without crops to feed small animals…

Food Webs in Haiti

September 22, 2021

When coal mining in Africa pollutes the water almost everything is in danger because the soil needs the water to stay hydrated, plants need soil to grow, animals need plants to eat, humans need animal or plants to eat, humans need coal for energy, soil…

Coal Mining In South Africa

September 22, 2021