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Nor were scientists examining yet the simultaneous impact on people’s lives of the water they bathed in and drank, the food they grew and ate, the air they breathed, the fossil fuels they burned, the plastic products they enjoyed, and the pollution resulting from modern life.
Pair. Square. Share.
Identity ways in which modern rural and urban Delta life examines chemical use in the following:
1. Water: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2. Food: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 3. Air: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
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4. Fossil fuel:
______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 5. Plastic: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 6. Pollution: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
7. The combined impact of one or more of these variables: ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
Endangered Species
Wikipedia provides these links to a dozen endangered species in Vietnam. Follow the links and take notes of each species. How do the above variables of human impact
on nature affect the survivability of these species? What difference does the health of these species make for human habitation?
1. Delacour's langur (Trachypithecus delacouri)
2. Black-crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor)
3. Christmas Island frigate bird (Fregata andrewsi)
4. Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran)
5. Banded eagle ray (Aetomylaeus nichofii)
6. Vietnamese salamander (Paramesotriton deloustali) 7. Vietnamese leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri)
8. Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
9. Vietnamese pheasant (Lophura hatinhensis)
10. Vietnamese tree frog
11. False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
12. Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)
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