What do you mean by the natural environment?
Which are the major components of the environment? How does
man modify the environment?
Answers
The term 'natural environment' refers to the non-human-made surroundings and conditions in which all living and non-living things exist on Earth. ... Ecological units that operate as natural systems (such as soil, vegetation and so on). Universal natural resources (such as air and water).
Various factors (biotic & abiotic) are in a flux and keep changing the environment continuously. 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.
For thousands of years, humans have modified the physical environment by clearing land for agriculture or damming streams to store and divert water. ... While these modifications directly impact the local environment, they also impact environments farther away due to the interconnectivity of Earth's systems.
Answer:
The term 'natural environment' refers to the non-human-made surroundings and conditions in which all living and non-living things exist on Earth.
Various factors (biotic & abiotic) are in a flux and keep changing the environment continuously. 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.
For thousands of years, humans have modified the physical environment by clearing land for agriculture or damming streams to store and divert water.