What is environment
Answers
the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
"survival in an often hostile environment
The environment can be defined as a sum total of all the living and non-living elements and their effects which influence human life. While all living or biotic elements are animals, plants, forests, fisheries, and birds, etc. The non-living or abiotic elements include water, land, sunlight, rocks, and air, etc.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
❥ Supply of Resources
The environment offers resources for production.
It includes both renewable and non-renewable resources.
Example: Wood for furniture, soil, land, etc.
❥ Sustains Life
The environment includes the sun, soil, water, air which are essential for human life.
It sustains life by providing genetic and biodiversity.
❥ Assimilation of Waste
Production and consumption activities generate waste.
This occurs mostly in the form of garbage.
The environment helps in getting rid of the garbage.
❥ Enhances Quality of Life
Environment enhances the quality of life.
Man enjoys natural beauty like rivers, mountains, deserts, etc.
These add to the quality of life.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━