How do floods affect the ecosystem?
Negative:
Floods can cause major damage to buildings and vegetation. it can also destroy sewage systems which cause trash to float up. Floods can pick up big pieces of dangerous trash and then it could end up in the oceans causing some fish to die. Also it could flood over an area were a dangerous chemical was spilled and the flood could help it spread and if the chemical is deadly then it could end up killing lots of organisms, plants could be affected by this. They could receive too much water and end up drowning causing the plant to die. This could eventually cause a domino effect if the plant doesn't recover fast. Worst of all if you were to be inside a flooding home while it's being flooded there's a possibility of you drowning to death. There's an average of 80 casualties a year in the US from floods, but the biggest number of deaths caused by floods was on 1972,there were 554 people die from floods that year. This was the highest number recorded since 1906. To imagine a death like that is horrible and something that no one deserves but controlling the weather isn't possible.
Negative:
Floods can cause major damage to buildings and vegetation. it can also destroy sewage systems which cause trash to float up. Floods can pick up big pieces of dangerous trash and then it could end up in the oceans causing some fish to die. Also it could flood over an area were a dangerous chemical was spilled and the flood could help it spread and if the chemical is deadly then it could end up killing lots of organisms, plants could be affected by this. They could receive too much water and end up drowning causing the plant to die. This could eventually cause a domino effect if the plant doesn't recover fast. Worst of all if you were to be inside a flooding home while it's being flooded there's a possibility of you drowning to death. There's an average of 80 casualties a year in the US from floods, but the biggest number of deaths caused by floods was on 1972,there were 554 people die from floods that year. This was the highest number recorded since 1906. To imagine a death like that is horrible and something that no one deserves but controlling the weather isn't possible.
You can see how just one flood can soo badly affect one species, but it wont just stop there. There's probably a lot more species than just the turtles and dugongs that feed of the sea grass and these floods will put the ecosystem of this area of balance.