What impact does aquatic pollution have on the biotic and abiotic environment?

Answer 1

I am assuming if you are looking at this you are a Boy Scout working on requirement 3c3 for your Environmental Science Merit Badge. I am a boy scout and this requirement challenged me, but I eventually got it. I am not here to give you the answers to copy and paste, but this will help you.

A waterborne pollutant like fertilizer can hurt an aquatic community a lot.

It will cause certain species to come up and harm the environment.

This species will reduce things the community needs.

The communities life will start to decrease, due to loss of their needs.

The bottom of the food chain will eat that certain species and then it will be eaten, all the way to the top of the food chain.

Bio magnification is linked to this.

I basically just took my report and made it like a riddle, Boy Scouts need to do their work too

These links will help you find out the certain species and how everything connects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution

http://www.ehow.com/list_7311442_waterborne-pollutants.html<--Important

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification

Good luck on your Merit Badge and on eagle

Answer 2

water pollution greatly affects animal because if they drink of the polluted water they will die. it affects humans because if the animals are dying from lack of water or living with poisoning from the pollution, that's less food we have to eat. and if it was smaoke, say from a powerplant, then the carbon would be breatjhed in by animals and make them ill and trees would take it in and it would kill them! :(

Answer 3

Aquatic pollution, which is the deposition of harmful materials in a huge quantity into water sources like the sea, lakes, lagoons or streams that cause harm to the environment and to the living organisms of these sources.

The biotic components of an aquatic ecosystem include the fishes, the plants, and other large organisms let's take for instance, a sea's biotic components will include all the fishes, the plankton, crocodiles, whales. During sea pollution mostly from neighbouring industrial sectors which deposit all the unwanted materials from the production into the sea. When these chemicals and other materials get decomposed into the sea, they are being eaten up by plankton and other green alga and green protoctists which grow in a so vast and cover up the sea thus, preventing the passage of sunlight and other essential energy sources from sun since they use up the sunlight energy for their own growth. This causes what is often called Eutrophication.

Answer 4

Aquatic pollution can harm biotic environments by causing declines in populations of aquatic organisms, disrupting food chains, and reducing biodiversity. It can also affect abiotic environments by altering water quality, increasing toxicity levels, and disrupting ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Overall, aquatic pollution can have far-reaching and long-lasting negative impacts on both biotic and abiotic components of aquatic ecosystems.

Answer 5

The ozone layer will get narrow and more of the sun's harmful rays will harm our skin. It may lead to skin cancer.

Answer 6

It kills aquatic animals

Answer 7

yes