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    Human activities like urbanization and burning fossil fuels have caused global climate change, damaging ecosystems. This climate change is negatively impacting populations of chinstrap penguins, whose numbers are declining as ice melts, while adelie penguin numbers are increasing as they breed on land. Geological events such as meteor impacts and natural disasters also impact ecosystems by destroying forests but creating new growth. When humans extract resources it can deplete local populations, but can also concentrate resources and cause some species to thrive at the expense of others, directly affecting organisms.

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    Human activities like urbanization and burning fossil fuels have caused global climate change, damaging ecosystems. This climate change is negatively impacting populations of chinstrap penguins, whose numbers are declining as ice melts, while adelie penguin numbers are increasing as they breed on land. Geological events such as meteor impacts and natural disasters also impact ecosystems by destroying forests but creating new growth. When humans extract resources it can deplete local populations, but can also concentrate resources and cause some species to thrive at the expense of others, directly affecting organisms.

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    Human activities like urbanization and burning fossil fuels have caused global climate change, damaging ecosystems. This climate change is negatively impacting populations of chinstrap penguins, whose numbers are declining as ice melts, while adelie penguin numbers are increasing as they breed on land. Geological events such as meteor impacts and natural disasters also impact ecosystems by destroying forests but creating new growth. When humans extract resources it can deplete local populations, but can also concentrate resources and cause some species to thrive at the expense of others, directly affecting organisms.

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    Human activities like urbanization and burning fossil fuels have caused global climate change, damaging ecosystems. This climate change is negatively impacting populations of chinstrap penguins, whose numbers are declining as ice melts, while adelie penguin numbers are increasing as they breed on land. Geological events such as meteor impacts and natural disasters also impact ecosystems by destroying forests but creating new growth. When humans extract resources it can deplete local populations, but can also concentrate resources and cause some species to thrive at the expense of others, directly affecting organisms.

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    Summary and artifact:

    Humans have a very big effect on the homeostasis of ecosystems.


    Between urbanization, and burning fossil fuels, we have caused global
    climate and environmental changes. Urbanization destroys ecosystems, and
    replaces them with concrete jungles. This ties in with burning fossil fuels as
    well, because if there are more people in the area, more fossil fuels are
    burned because of cars and factories, which causes climate change. Climate
    change is directly affecting chinstrap and adelie penguins. Adelie penguins
    populations are increasing rapidly, while chinstraps numbers are faltering.
    Since chinstraps breed on ice, their numbers are falling because the ice is
    melting quickly. Adelie though, breed on land. This rise in adelie penguins is
    making it harder for the chinstraps to breed, and it is making life harder for
    them.
    Geological and meteorological events also impact ecosystems. Two
    big examples of this are natural disasters and meteor impacts. Meteor
    impacts are always a huge threat to everything. We cant control where they
    fly, and if they impact earth, they always cause massive damage to
    ecosystems. This is what made the dinosaurs extinct, and it could easily
    make us extinct as well. Natural disasters also effect ecosystems. Things like
    forest fires, tornadoes, and tsunamis have built and destroyed ecosystems.
    Forest fires do a great job at both of these. When a forest fire burns down a
    forest, it destroys most things inside, but it creates a new forest from the
    ashes.
    Human activities and a biotic resources greatly affect species
    distribution and abundance. When humans mine and collect resources, this
    could potentially deplete those resources for animals in the local area. We
    could also potentially create resources without thinking, and cause a certain
    species to thrive, while others suffer. As we continue to do this to our
    ecosystems, we are directly affecting the growth/death of organisms in the
    area. EX) 1.C.1:b, 2.D.3:b, 4.A.5:b, 4.A.6:f, 4.B.3:c, 4.B.4:a-b

    Reflection:
    The most important thing about this artifact was teaching us how
    humans and natural events can directly influence the survival of species all
    around the globe. I would like to study global climate change further, and
    what humans can do to prevent it from happening in the future. I still
    struggle with how there can be sudden influxes of resources, and how el
    nino affects the ecosystem.

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