PEOPLE AND THE EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM

(STS10)

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in

Financial Management

Module 3 Lesson 1

Human Impact on Vegetation

APPLICATION

Submitted by:

FLORY VIC L. BAKIAO

Student

Submitted to:

MS. LOVELY PATETE

Instructor

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APPLICATION

A. Identify areas in your community which were previously

covered with forest or vegetation but now removed and

transformed? Describe the process of the transformation and

the changes associated to the removal of the vegetation in

your area. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the

changes in the in your community?

B. Answer the following questions.

1. How does human transform the vegetation cover of the Earth?

2. What are anthropogenic related forest fires?

3. Describe the deforestation in the Philippines.

4. Kindly provide five invasive species (flora or fauna) in the

Philippines. What are their effects to native community of flora and

fauna?
A. Identify areas in your community which were previously
covered with forest or vegetation but now removed and
transformed? Describe the process of the transformation and
the changes associated to the removal of the vegetation in
your area. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the
changes in the in your community?
TAUHO PLACE
From 2015 to 2016, a place had an abundance of trees and green
grasses where animals eat and lived. A place had also a lot of
coconut trees that's one of the sources of income of the owner and a
lot of inset vegetables that one of the sources of food. During the
construction, an all-important component of our ecosystems such
as trees, green grasses, plants, and animals dug up by the use of
the technological tool (backhoe and trucks) to have a space and
easy access to the people. After the construction, a place is devoid
of a lot of trees, green grasses, plants, and animals which are the
important component of the ecosystem, especially to humans. All
you can see right now is a flat surface of the soil and houses.
The disadvantage of the changes in the community is that it is
possible to have a lack of sources. Have reduction of oxygen and
absence of houses of the animals. While the advantage of the
changes in the community is that it can build a business.
B. Answer the following questions
1. How does human transform the vegetation cover of the
Earth?
Vegetation is the most important component of the global
terrestrial ecosystem. By the influence of human disturbance such
as urbanization, deforestation, mining and different types of
population. Our global vegetation has shifted from a semi- wild
terrestrial biosphere to a mostly anthropogenic biome. Therefore,
the human disturbance has the significant impact to our
ecosystem. Also, the climate change is one of the factors that our
global vegetation changes.
2. What are anthropogenic related forest fires?
Forest fires are becoming more frequent larger and perhaps
mostly driven by anthropogenic changes in landscape than climate
events. Most of forest fires are anthropogenic such as burning fossil
fuels, planting N-fixing crops, fertilizer production and waste water
disposal caused by escaped fires from human activities.
3. Describe the deforestation in the Philippines.
The Philippines is one of the most severely deforested countries
in the tropic and most deforestation has happened in the last 40
years. Estimate places forest cover in the Philippines in the year
1900 at twenty-one million hectares, covering 70% of the total land
area.
4. Kindly provide five invasive species (flora or fauna) in the
Philippines. What are their effects to native community of
flora and fauna?
These are the notable invasive species in the Philippines are: the
amphibians Kaloula pulchra, Hoplobatrachus rugulosus, and
Rhinella marina; and plants Chromolaena odorata or locally known
as hagonoy, and Imperata cylindrica or cogon.
The effects of Invasive species cause harm to wildlife in many
ways. When the new and aggressive species is introduced into an
ecosystem, it may not have any natural predators or controls. It can
breed and spread quickly, taking over an area. Native wildlife may
not have evolved defenses against the invader, or they may not be
able to compete with a species that has no predators.
The Invasive species have direct threats and indirect threats.
The direct threats of invasive species include on native species,
outcompeting native species for food or other resources, causing or
carrying disease, and preventing native species from reproducing or
killing a native species’ young.
While, the indirect threats of invasive species are invasive
species can change the food web in an ecosystem by destroying or
replacing native food sources. Also, may provide little to no food
value for wildlife. Invasive can also alter the abundance or diversity
of species that are important habitat for native wildlife. Aggressive
plants species like kudzu can quickly replace a diverse ecosystem
with a monoculture of just kudzu. Additionally, some invasive
species are capable of changing the conditions in an ecosystem,
such as changing soil chemistry or the intensity of wildfires.