Activity Research and identify a common resource in your state and explain the consequences of rise in population on the resource.

Pollution, crimes and overcrowding.

Explanation:

Lack of family planning is responsible for the rise of population. It brought many adverse changes in the environment such as pollution, crimes and overcrowding etc. Rise in population causes unemployment that leads to crimes in the society. It also produces pollution due to more human activities such as emission of fossil fuels and more industries should be built to provide basic needs to more population. Rise in population causes agricultural to be converted into residential area that leads to decrease food production.

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

many other transport proteins, often called pumps, move materials against a concentration gradient. active transport drives molecules across a membrane from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration. this process, shown in figure 5.1, uses transport proteins powered by chemi- cal energy.