C. Very short answer type questions
1. What is lithosphere?
2. What is biosphere?
3. What is biodiversity?
4. What is an ecosystem?
5. Name any two components of the environment.
Answers
Answer:
A lithosphere is the Ridgid outermost shell of the terrestrial type planet or natural satellite
What is lithosphere?
The lithosphere is the rigid, outermost shell on Earth. It is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of years or greater.
What is biosphere?
The biosphere is a narrow zone on the surface of the earth where soil, water, and air combine to sustain life. Life can only occur in this zone. From fungi and bacteria to large animals, there are several different types of life.
What is biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the variation among living organisms from different sources including terrestrial, marine and desert ecosystems, and the ecological complexes of which they are a part.
What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is defined as a community of lifeforms in concurrence with non-living components, interacting with each other.
Name any two components of the environment.
Environment mainly consists of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. But it can be roughly divided into two types such as (a) Micro environment and (b) Macro environment. It can also be divided into two other types such as (c) Physical and (d) biotic environment.