Ecosystem Paper

Ecosystem Structure Function paper, week two, assignment two 1

Ecosystem Structure Function paper, week two, assignment two

John Doe

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Some Professor

Science Class

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Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States. The Lake Mead National Recreational Area was established in the year of 1964, which offers year round activities such as; water sports, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Lake Mead the Lake was named after Elwood Mead a commissioner of the U.S Bureau of Reclamation. Even though lakes can end flooding that helps to clean out the silt in rivers, causing them to clog, it can provide recreational activities such as boating, fishing, and swimming because in case of a drought, the dam will still have a relatively constant supply of water and also produces hydroelectric power.

Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the U.S., could go dry by 2021 according to scientists. An increase in the temperature will have an impact on evaporation, precipitation, water vapor in the atmosphere, and other hydrologic processes. However these changes can affect the local water supply in addition it would be essential to be addressed in the near future. If the human race induced the climate and the water usage continues at the present rate, or even slower there is a 50% chance that the lake could go dry in the following years.

More than thirty chemical elements are cycled through the environment by biogeochemical cycles. There are six important biogeochemical cycles that transport carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous. Recall that these six elements comprise the bulk of atoms in living things. Carbon, the most plentiful element in the human body, is not the most common element in the crust, silicon is. Human

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growth and technology can interrupt the biogeochemical cycles in that ecosystem. Since the Industrial Revolution the human...