Chapter 3.1
Discover How Your Community Affects the Environment
You will explore how human activities change the land, water, and air and learn what you can do to help protect the natural world around you.
What You'll Learn
You will learn how human activities create pollution and harm nature.
You will discover how habitat loss affects animals that live nearby.
You will explore key terms like composting, erosion, and biodiversity.
You will find ways your community can protect the natural environment.
What You'll Practice
1
You will answer questions about pollution effects on Canadian wildlife.
2
You will identify vocabulary words like habitat, erosion, and composting.
3
You will explore how communities can reduce their environmental impact.
Why This Matters
Understanding how your community affects the environment helps you make responsible choices that protect the land, water, and air for all living things.
This Unit Includes
Practice exercises
Learning resources
Skills
Pollution
Conservation
Habitat
Composting
Stewardship
NS Curriculum Aligned
