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The document discusses identifying changes in the environment that are useful or harmful. It provides examples of pollution and environmental damage caused by human activities. While dumping waste, cutting trees, and pollution are harmful, composting, recycling, and gardening are beneficial changes mentioned.

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Harmful and Useful

The document discusses identifying changes in the environment that are useful or harmful. It provides examples of pollution and environmental damage caused by human activities. While dumping waste, cutting trees, and pollution are harmful, composting, recycling, and gardening are beneficial changes mentioned.

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Identifying Changes that are Useful

and Harmful in the Environment

The immediate place where you are exposed to


is your environment. In a sea or river, there are
different things that you may see. There are living and
non-living things found in them. The natural
environment where you are now is your home with
your family and other organisms as the living
component.

In the sea, there are rocks, stones, sand and


water that are found . These are the non-living things
where humans and other living organisms interact.
What are the living and non-living things found in the
playground? Are there activities that may be useful or
harmful in your environment?

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Identifying Changes that are Useful and
Harmful in the Environment

There are interactions that lead to changes in


the materials found in our home and in our
environment. Seas are the habitat or environment for
fish and other marine organisms. The playground
has some benches and slides where you may rest or
play . These materials making up the environment
are always changing. Do want to know why?

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Identifying Changes that are Useful and
Harmful in the Environment

When land or bodies of water are dumped with


garbage of any kind such as empty bottles, plastics,
toxic wastes, chemicals from the factories, and others,
the land and bodies of water become polluted. Land
and water pollution are not useful in the environment.
Water pollution is very harmful because the fish will be
harmed as their habitat will be destroyed. Trees when
cut can be harmful because some animals live on
trees. This will also cause flood in the area. It causes
soil erosion, loss of habitat to animals, rapid change in
temperature and affects the quality of air that we
breathe.

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Kinds of Pollution

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Identifying Changes that are Useful and
Harmful in the Environment

The harmful effects of changes in the


environment are oftentimes caused by human
activities. When the surrounding air is blanketed
with smoke from factories and motorized vehicles,
ashes and other dust particles, the air becomes
polluted.

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Harmful in the Environment

Polluted air causes skin itchiness, lung


infections, cancer and other respiratory diseases.
Burning of garbage such as plastic materials, rubber
and other wastes is harmful also to the environment.
Many items in household garbage when burned
release dangerous toxic materials that contribute to
global warming.

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Identifying Changes that are Useful and
Harmful in the Environment

However, there are changes in the environment that


are found to be useful. The flowering of trees into
fruits, utilization of left over foods into compost, the
use of animal manure for fertilizers and the recycling
and up-cycling of different local materials are helpful
to keep the environment clean and more adaptable
for human, plants and animals to live. This will lead
to activities in food production and maintenance of a
clean and green environment.

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Draw a happy face if the given situation states
changes in the materials that are useful in the
environment and sad face if it states harmful
effect.
1. Cutting and shaping pieces of used wood/lumber
into chair.
2. Water on rivers and streams become contaminated
with plastic wastes.
3. Lung infections and other respiratory diseases
become rampant due to excessive smoke from
factories and motorized vehicles.
4. Recycling of waste for organic fertilizers.
5. Dumping of garbage in bodies of water..
6. Cutting of trees in the community.
7. Vegetable gardening.
8. Flowering of trees for early onset of fruiting.
9. Clean up drive in the community.
10.Flies, cockroaches and rats breed on garbage
thrown on the street.

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What kind of pollution is described in each
situation? Choose the letter of the best answer.
A. Air pollution B. Water pollution C. Land pollution
_________1. Farmers can no longer harvest vegetables.
_________2. Red tide is affecting the northern coast of
the country.
_________3. The smell of the garbage is suffocating the
villagers.
_________4. Mine tilling are thrown in rivers.
_________5. Garbage is thrown in empty spaces in
residential areas.
_________6. Factories release harmful smoke.
_________7. Chicken manures release foul odor all over
the town.
_________8. Villagers dump their trash on a vacant lot
at the back of the school.
_________9. Fishermen use dynamite while fishing.
_________10. Using detergent soap while washing
clothes in the river.

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Read each situation carefully. Choose the letter of
the BEST CORRECT answer.
1. The following activities done in the materials are
useful to the environment, EXCEPT ___________.
A. both sides of the bond paper were used when writing.
B. old newspapers were used in wrapping gifts.
C. eco bag was used in buying groceries.
D. insecticides were used in killing insects.
2. Which activity caused change that has harmful effect
in the environment?
A. carved wood C. molded clay pot
B. landscaped land D. deforested mountain
3. Which of the following changes in the materials is
NOT harmful to the environment?
A. Throwing garbage in the canal.
B. Using paper bags when shopping.
C. Throwing hospital wastes into the river.
D. Using detergents in washing clothes in the river.
4. Which activities are useful in the environment?
I. Burning of garbage II. Vegetable gardening
III. Deforestation IV. Composting
A. I and III C. I, II and III
B. II and IV D. II, III and IV
5. What is/are the harmful effect of melting of ice/
glaciers in other parts of the world?
I. flood III. forest fires
II. Destruction of habitat of some animals IV. Drought
A. I, II and III C. I and II
B. II and IV D. IV only

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