BIOLOGY 290 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Soil Fertility, Logarithmic Scale, Arable Land
28 Nov 2016
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Bacteria/viruses/other things that make you sick: zika and other mosquito-carried, fungal infections athletes foot. Insects and other pathogens that destroy plants and crops. Naturally contaminated water: poor water quality in brazil from natural bacteria. Weather, climate, particularly natural disasters: sunburn! Penicillin and other medicines: aspirin from willow bark. Energy from the natural environment solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric. Animal companionship having pets can make you happier/healthier. Of biotic resources: livestock: pollution, hormone use, antibiotic use, agriculture. Soil fertility, pollination pests (weeds, fungi/pathogens, insects, birds/other wildlife, predators of pests like ladybugs which eat aphids: wild foods : compounds used in herbal/medicinal supplements. Tuna other aquatic animals that we do not farm. Bioaccumulation/biomagnification consequence of burning coal which releases mercury into the environment, bacteria converts mercury into an absorbable form, then species that eat bacteria first incorporate it, then on and on. Algae blooms eutrophication (nutrient overloaded water: air.
