Directions: Determine which category the following real-life situations belong
to. Choose your answers from the environmental threats listed above, write on each
blank the type of threat that matches with the description.
1. The demand for beachfront property near large cities is reducing
wetlands and mangrove forests.
2. There have been numerous reports of fish die-offs in Laguna de Bay due
to eutrophication, or over-enrichment of a water body triggering dense
plant growth and the death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
3. When industries use water from rivers and bays, the water may go back
into waterways at a higher temperature, killing organisms that can't
tolerate warmer water.
4. Coral reefs are being destroyed by way of irresponsible and
unsustainable
fishing and aquaculture (ex. muro ami and cyanide fishing).
5. More people are moving from urban areas to the "country" where there
is more "natural scenery."