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Plant endangerment/extinction'

As of 2013 there has been recorded about 7,300 plants and 220 of them are endangered. An endangered plant is when there is just a bit of that species left or when its survival is at risk. The main cause for these plants becoming endangered is mostly human made. The main cause of human plant endangerment is pollution. There is three types of pollution air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution. Air pollution can happen when someone dumps something into a lake and the waste evaporates into the clouds and causes acid rain and destroy the leaves on the trees and can kill the tree. Water pollution is when someone dumps something into a lake or river. When it gets dumped in the river it can affect the photosynthesis in the aquatic plants. The plants can also be affected if there is too much sodium (salt) in the water. The final type of pollution is soil pollution. Industrial activity is the main reason of soil pollution. Most industries depend on the minerals in the ground so they need to take it. When they take the minerals the machines they use contaminate the soil. The effects soil pollution have are effect of human heath, effect on the plants growth and it can change the soils structure. If the soil gets to contaminate no plants can grow in the area. Another reason for plant endangerment is natural disasters. If a tornado or something happens it can go through a habitat and destroy the whole area which could affect the whole entire area cause mass destruction which would kill all the plants causing extinction or endangerment. If that happens everywhere it can affect the food chain. If every plant goes to endangerment and then extinction then there will be no plant no trees so that goes to no oxygen. So that goes to show that we need plants in are ecosystem. In Hawthorne Park I could not locate any endangered or extinct plant however there was multiple dead and decayed plants in the park which could be endangered but there were unidentifiable. There has probably been lots of extinct plants in the park which have died off. If plants go endangered and we don't stop them from becoming endangered they will go extinct and we will lose plants and trees then we lose oxygen and die.

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