2022 Essay Contest Finalist

Entry by Raizel Dino

Life On Land and In Water

Our ecosystems are beautiful and complex. Preservation is of utmost importance as they are being rapidly destroyed at an alarming pace. With the understanding of our Earth Sciences and the interactions between our geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere, it is possible to save both our ecosystems on land and in water before time runs out.

The lands on Earth are alluring yet, we hurt them by destroying habitats that our animals live in. Without a home, their population significantly decreases. Looking at the way our ecosystems are formed, we can use geology to study Earth’s functions in these ecosystems and keep them sustainable. With this, we can improve interactions between our biosphere and geosphere. Granting our animals back sustainable conditions, while, at the same time, figuring out how to maintain Earth’s processes in deteriorating areas.

It is not only the surface, but our oceans as well. Water quality weakens and our aquatic animals are becoming endangered due to overfishing. With oceanography, we can closely identify the contents of our oceans. Interactions in our biosphere and hydrosphere will heavily improve. Preventing pollution, halting overfishing, and minimizing runoff will equally support our aquatic animals in the biosphere and our water quality in the hydrosphere. Controlling air pollution in our atmosphere will aid since this contributes to our oceans’ unwanted pollutants.

To put it bluntly, our deteriorating ecosystems on land and water are being destroyed by our own hands. We are capable of reversing this. Understanding how Earth’s processes work in our geosphere will be able to give our land animals in the biosphere home while knowing how to sustain these habitats properly thanks to Geology. Closely identifying contents in our oceans using oceanography will be able to affect our biosphere and hydrosphere positively by keeping sea life healthy and our waters clean.