Question

explain the main causes which are a threat to the ecosystem

Answer 1

Economic activities such as logging, mining, farming and construction often involve clearing out places with natural vegetative cover. Very often, tampering with one factor of the ecosystem can have a ripple effect on it and affect many more or all other factors of that ecosystem. For example, clearing a piece of forest for timber can expose the upper layers of the soil to the sun's heat, causing erosion and drying. It can cause a lot of animals and insects that depended on the shade and moisture from the tree to die or migrate to other places.Water, land and air pollution all together play a crucial role in the health of ecosystems. Pollution may be natural or human caused, but regardless they potentially release destructive agents or chemicals (pollutants) into the environments of living things. “In a lake, for example, it can create havoc on the ecological balance by stimulating plant growth and causing the death of fish due to suffocation resulting from lack of oxygen. The oxygen cycle will stop, and the polluted water will also affect the animals dependent on the lake water” Source: Study the effect of pollution on an ecosystem, WWF.

Answer 2

Economic activities such as logging, mining, farming and construction often involve clearing out places with natural vegetative cover. Very often, tampering with one factor of the ecosystem can have a ripple effect on it and affect many more or all other factors of that ecosystem. For example, clearing a piece of forest for timber can expose the upper layers of the soil to the sun's heat, causing erosion and drying. It can cause a lot of animals and insects that depended on the shade and moisture from the tree to die or migrate to other places
So it is our duty not to endanger our precious earth and we should save our earth.