Explain how each given activities affect/alter the following cycles.


- Water cycle

1. Withdrawing large amounts of freshwater

2. Clearing vegetation and eroding soils


- Carbon cycle

3. Illegal logging and deforestation

4. Burning plastics


-Nitrogen cycle

5. use of artificial fertilizers (which contain nitrogen and phosphorus

compounds) in agriculture

6. Adding nitrous oxide to the atmosphere through farming practices which can

warm the atmosphere and deplete ozone.


-Phosphorus cycle

7. Clearing large area of forests

8. Utilizing phosphorus in making fertilizers


- Sulfur cycle

9. Converting sulfur-containing metallic ores into free metals such as copper,

lead, and zinc releasing sulfur dioxide into the environment.

10. Burning of large quantities of fossil fuels, especially from coal, releases larger

amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas into the atmosphere.


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