Write a short note about Environment (60-80 words)
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Environment comes from the French word ‘environ’ which means surroundings. The environment means natural world and its surroundings: the air, the water and the earth.
Environment refers to the surrounding (both living and non-living) of the livings species. The human-beings, plants, animals and other living beings operate in the environment. Environment is also sometimes referred to as habitat.
Environment may refer to the entire world, or any part of it such as particular geographical area. It consists of both living and non-living things. Living things such as animals, plants, flora, fauna, etc. interacts with both other living and non-living things. Similarly, non-living things such as soil (land), landscape, water (ocean, seas, ponds, lakes, rivers), weather, climate, temperature, sunlight, air, etc. interacts with other non-living and living things.