Ecosystem Interaction

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Humans interact with the ecosystem in every way imaginable. We humans have a huge impact on the Earth’s biodiversity, whether it’s positively or negatively.

Human’s Negative Interactions

People are responsible for polluting the Earth, thereby disrupting the water cycle and carbon cycle in the biosphere.

Water cycle is the process where the Earth’s water is collected, purified and re-distributed (evaporation, condensation and precipitation). Water pollutants like the chemicals from factories drifts to bodies of water, when this happens, the chemicals are able to go up the atmosphere and be re-distributed as acid rain, which erodes abiotic factors in the ecosystem like rocks.

The carbon cycle describes the movement of carbon as it is recycled and reused throughout the biosphere. Due to water, land and air pollution that humans cause, organisms in the ecosystem are harmed, thus decreasing the amount of carbon that is released into the atmosphere. If less carbon is released, photosynthesis in plants would be disrupted too because they need carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, water and sunli...

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