Question 1.
Answer the following questions briefly.
What is an ecosystem?
What do you mean by the natural environment?
Which are the major components of the environment?
Give four examples of a human-made environment.
What is the lithosphere?
Which are the two major components of the biotic environment?
What is the biosphere?
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1. An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts.
2. The natural environment or natural world encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity.
3. The four major components of environment include lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, corresponding to rocks, water, air and life respectively. Lithosphere is the outermost layer of earth called crust, which is made of different minerals.
4. Human-made environment
a) Buildings.
b) Parks.
c) Industries.
d) Bridges.
5. Lithosphere is the solid crust or the hard top layer of the earth. It is made up of rocks and minerals. It is covered by a thin layer of soil. It is an irregular surface with various landforms such as mountains, plateaus, desert, plains, valleys, etc. Lithosphere plays an important role in our life.
6. Two major components of the biotic environment are plants and animals.
7. The biosphere is a narrow zone of the earth where land, water, air interact with each other to support life. It is in this zone that life exists. There are several species of organisms that vary in size from microbes and bacteria to large mammals.
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