Question

Answer the following in one or two sentences:

1.What is an environment?

2.How many components of environment are there? Name them.

3.What is the root word of environment?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth.

The basic components of the environment are atmosphere or the air, lithosphere or the rocks and soil, hydrosphere or the water, and the living component of the environment or the biosphere. the thick gaseous layer surrounding the earth. It spreads up to 300 km.

Descending from the Middle French preposition environ “around,” environment , in its most basic meaning, is “that which surrounds.” When preceded by the and unmodified, it usually refers to the natural world (“please don't litter if you care about the environment”)

Answer 2

1) Environment is everything that is around ‌‌ ‌‌us, which can be living or non-living ‌things. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

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2) There are 3 main components of ‌ ‌ ‌‌‌environment are :

$\bf \large \mapsto \: Lithosphere$

Lithosphere is the solid crust or the hard top layer of the earth.

$\bf \large \implies \: Atmosphere$

The blanket of air surrounding the earth is called the atmosphere.

$\bf \large \implies \: Hydrosphere$

A hydrosphere is the total amount of water on a planet.

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3) The word Environment is derived from the French word “Environ” which means‌“surrounding.”

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