Human impact on the environment
What Human impact on the environment means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Activities such as deforestation, pollution, overfishing, hunting and building that reduce biodiversity by destroying or fragmenting habitats.
The combined effect of more people and higher consumption causes a greater total use of resources and production of waste.
Topics that use Human impact on the environment
- Biodiversity (AQA GCSE)
- Waste management (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Biodiversity
- Conservation and sustainability
- Ecosystem comparison
- Ecosystem stability
- Eutrophication
- Food and shelter provision
- Genetic variation within species
- Global and local scales
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