Leave a comment: Today we looked at chain reactions, and how something seemingly small can have a big impact. (I think we had a chain reaction in our classroom at lunch...some not-so-great behaviour led some normally good kids to be rather evil). So, what are some things humans do that have an impact on ecosysems? e.g. spraying insecticides leads to death of helpful insects like bees, which pollinate fruit trees. You may need to google this, or ask your parents about it. Be original!
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twinkleToe
10/28/2015 04:37:16 pm
One thing that I found out is about overhunting. Because people hunt too much of animals like lions, the balance of their ecosystem is shaken. The lion eats some plant-eating animals. Those animals eat plants, and if they are not killed they'll keep on eating plants and soon the ecosystem there will go someday. That's why lions eat them. But if they get hunted, like what us humans do, then it destroys the balance of nature. All because of us.
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FluffyKittens300
10/28/2015 04:41:07 pm
If we throw garbage in the ocean, sea creatures my try to eat it, but may end up choking on it and die. Or if they eat to much trash animals can get sick and die.
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SuperPunnyGamer
10/28/2015 04:43:42 pm
Humans cut down trees to make things like schools or houses. The animals that lived in those woods will lose their home. That is all that I can think of. See you all tomorrow. 😁
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itzme.eg
10/28/2015 04:58:06 pm
I got to thinking about oil spills which can spread throughout the ocean and kill animals and plants in the ocean. Other land animals rely on fish and also plants. If we keep spilling oil into the water, not only we will be losing fish we are also poisoning our water. Don't forget about gym and the girls who do volleyball we have practice after school tomorrow. Bye everybody!
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polarcolar
10/28/2015 05:21:20 pm
I found that people pollutes air with riding their own cars. There is too many people in the world so if they think 'It's okay to ride car just me' all of the people ride their own car. I mades too many exhaust so it pollutes air and people's health. Too make it decrease exhaust, we have to try to ride bikes or public transportations..
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ItsBubz
10/28/2015 05:31:42 pm
We, humans, have an impact on the ocean ecosystem when we fish too much. Before, people had to have licence to fish and a law of how many fish we can catch, people were fishing way to much that salmon were in crisis! If humans had kept fishing for salmon too much, salmon would of gone fully extinct! If salmon had gone extinct then other animals that had been feeding off of salmon now don't have food. For an example Dolphins. A fact I found was we actually have dropped hundreds of the salmon population down!
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clumsymonkey
10/28/2015 05:39:03 pm
we cut down trees, forests, and plants to build things like town, or cities and we destroy a lot of trees that birds or insects could have been living there.
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mr.enderman1919
10/28/2015 05:47:41 pm
People effect animals by cutting down trees and polluting the air. what about owls they live in trees and with people cutting trees down owls are losing their homes. With owls dying off rats and mice will grow because owls aren't eating them. I'm starting to feel sick. See you all tomorrow.
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Ninjaaloverr
10/28/2015 06:32:32 pm
I asked my mum and she said deforestation. Deforestation is when people take away all the trees in one area. Then the animals who lived in that area have nowhere to live.
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Aquatree23
10/28/2015 06:49:22 pm
If we take away all the fish then the sharks jelly fish etc will die because they will not have any other food to eat.
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ggingersnap03
10/28/2015 07:02:18 pm
I have an example. Well behind our house there is a lot o grass and they are taking it all our to build a bigger road. Right there they are ruining tons of insects and animals homes.
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EpicfaceManiac
10/28/2015 07:36:05 pm
Hi!!! Big Manufactures pollute the air to make product but they are killing off the o-zone layer, and making the air that we and other animals breath in poisons. If this keeps happening we will all DIE!!!!
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speedyslug
10/28/2015 07:46:15 pm
Some humans remove the trees so they are taking away the homes of birds and without birds then there is no coyotes because they cant eat and without coyotes there is no wolves and after that it just starts a chain reaction. See you all tomorrow
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PieReporter
10/28/2015 08:10:19 pm
Our population keeps growing and that makes the demand for natural resources higher. And that causes deforestation and other things like that. And that makes a huge number of animals with no habitat. And some die.
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Teddysprinkle
10/28/2015 08:22:17 pm
The first thing I thought about was hunting to much (over hunting) it's like a chain reaction because if hunters kill off let's say deer, if there is no deer left what will animals like voultures and others eat so then they will die and then the animals that depend on those animals die and so on.....
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Shadowdogs
10/28/2015 08:42:40 pm
Somethings that humans are doing that effect ecosystems is that we pollute the air and that really effects a bunch of plants and some kinds of animal, this is really bad because if the infected air kills off lot of plants and animals then chain could fall on one side, and by that happening it would effect even more species. There are a bunch of other things that humans do but I think that this is one of the worst. See you all tomorrow. :D
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Curlyfrie
10/28/2015 08:52:12 pm
Something that humans do are cut down trees and maybe something could be living in that tree like a bird so humans should think about other things then just doing what they want because you never know if there could be something living in the tree.bye see you all tomorrow.
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crazycraft
10/28/2015 08:58:06 pm
There in new evidence that in Hawaii the sunscreen that people where comes off in the water is damaging the coral reefs. With no coral reefs the fish and organisms that live there are in danger. This is so sad to hear!! I hope that they find a solution to this problem.
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ultrabanana
10/28/2015 09:19:00 pm
Humans are destroying the forests and we are making houses and papers out of the trees from the forests. Also, we are making factories so factory exhausts influence the air. We are impacting ecosystems in term of water either. We are polluting the water from the wastes of the factories. We are killing a lot of animals so that animals are definitely endangered. That's all I have.
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Penguinpartay
10/28/2015 09:26:46 pm
Some types of pop or beer are held in cases and when your done with the case you need to cut it so Racoons and other animals don't get there paws suck on them
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cleopatra
10/29/2015 07:58:27 am
some things humans do that affect animals is we cut down trees and animals need to live in trees so they have nowhere to live
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Littlerock
10/29/2015 08:19:11 am
One little thing that dies or if we keep killing it the animals that eat it die and etc. I think it is a pear tree
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ZZ
10/29/2015 01:41:03 pm
FUCK THE POLICE
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Sparkles
11/8/2015 08:59:18 pm
Some things that humans do to affect the ecosystem is that humans cut down trees for buildings and stuff. If they keep doing that there won't be any more trees, so we mite die because trees are the ones that provide oxygen for us.
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