Have you ever heard of light pollution? Light pollution occurs when people produce a lot of artificial light. Artificial light is produced when someone turns on a light in their home, street lights at night, and store lights. Light pollution effects all of us! Some people may have a hard time falling asleep in a city with many artificial light sources. Have you every tried to look at the stars in a city with a lot of lights? It is hard to see them. I live out in the country and I can see the lights in town. Some nights the lights from town are so bright I can only see a few stars. I want to see all of them!
The picture above was taken from space. It shows how much artificial light we produce during the night. Can you find the big cities?
BONUS QUESTION: Nocturnal animals are active at night. They hunt and gather food using senses that are adapted to night time. How do you think light pollution affects nocturnal animals?
7 comments:
Nocturnal animals have a hard time hunting and seeing when there is artificial light. Their eyes are not adapted to that light
BR yellow girl
I think that noctornal animals have a hard time of seeing. They will also makee it hard for hunting their prey. Beacause the prey mite see them. But. Also that it is hard to adapt to the artifical light.;-) red es
Nocturnal animals come out to eat at night and with too much artificial light they could get day and night mixed up and not know when it is safe to come out to eat. They could die from not eating.
Nocturnal animals come out to eat at night and with too much artificial light they could get day and night mixed up and not know when it issafe to come out to eat. They could die from not eating.
MW - Green
I think they will get scared and stay in the cave or where they live
GS-yellowgirl
I think they will starve to death because of all the light. KY-blue
Animals will die and light will be very got and people will never get sleep and die and food will go down and they will starve bb blue
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