GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carbon Fixation, Ice Age, Hydrosphere
16 May 2016
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Geog*1220 human impact on the environment lecture 1. But if the office door is open any other time you can go see me. Turnitin. com- tells you how well you are addressing citation issues (plagiarism) Guelph is located within the great lakes, st lawrence region of canada. If we were to abandon this area, it would become forest and grassland. Every resource is finite limited on some scale. We tend to live as though all resources will last forever. Not many virgin forests left in north america- only young trees. Ivory woodpecker adapted to mature forests- went extinct. -lost food and nest sites grand canyon- divert water for drinking- no longer flows to the ocean because we are extracting so much. Colorado river delta is dead- no more life. Heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, were put in the atmosphere miles away and end up in the ice and snow particles.
