EARTH SCI MOD 5

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Support services

include the cycling of vital nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus— minerals that are essential for survival and can only be derived in their usable forms through the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, respectively

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Provisioning services

provide the basic needs for survival— air, water, shelter, food and energy.

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Regulating Services

benefits obtained by regulating the climate, hazards, and disease through processes such as sequestration— removal of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and storage in plants

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Cultural Services

include nonmaterial benefits such as spiritual enrichment, cultural heritage, recreation, tourism, and the aesthetic experience that nature provides for humans

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Municipal Waste

materials that people in a community no longer want because they are broken, spoiled, or no longer useful

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Agricultural Waste

waste derived from farming and poultry

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Industrial Waste

from industrial sources other than mining. It includes a variety of materials such as demolition waste, scraps from manufacturing processes, and ash from combustion

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Mining Waste

large amounts of rock and soil removed from extracted valuable ores; mine tailings from grinding and sorting which are then dumped and stored in ponds near milling site; water pumped from mines that flows from piles of waste rock or tailings that contain hazardous materials

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Water Pollution

occurs when harmful substances—often chemicals or microorganisms—contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, aquifer, or other body of water, degrading water quality and rendering it toxic to humans or the environment

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Air Pollution

refers to the release of pollutants into the air—pollutants which are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whole

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Climate Change

refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns

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Republic Act No. 8749

Also called The Clean Air Act of 1999

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The Clean Air Act of 1999 (June 23)

The Act provides for the creation of a national program of air pollution management focusing primarily on pollution prevention; for the promotion of mass media communication in order to create social awareness and active participation in air quality planning and monitoring

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Republic Act No. 6969

this program of the DENR-EMB covers the sound and proper management of industrial chemicals and hazardous wastes in all aspects of its life cycle, from importation, manufacture, distribution, transportation, use and disposal

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Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990

this program of the DENR-EMB covers the sound and proper management of industrial chemicals and hazardous wastes in all aspects of its life cycle, from importation, manufacture, distribution, transportation, use and disposal

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Republic act no. 9003

Also called Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

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Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

act providing for an ecological solid waste management program

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Republic act 9275

Also called Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004

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Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004

aims to protect the country’s water bodies from pollution from land-based sources (industries and commercial establishments, agriculture and community/household activities

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Presidential Decree No. 1586

Also called Environmental Impact Statement System

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Environmental Impact Statement System

an act to attain and maintain a rational and orderly balance between socio-economic growth and environmental protection

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Republic act no. 9512

Also called National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

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National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008

articulates that the state shall promote national awareness of the role of natural resources in economic growth and the importance of environmental conservation and ecological balance towards sustained national development