2. Environment
It is your surroundings and what’s around you. Environment
includes all living & non living things that exist on this
earth. The living things include all the plants, animals
including man, & micro organisms. The non living thing
includes the air, water, oceans, rocks, mountains, soil,
manmade objects like bridges, buildings.
There are three types of environment
2. Biotic environment
1. The Physical environment
3. Social or cultural environment
3. The Physical environment
•It is also known as a-biotic environment and natural environment.
•The meaning of ‘a-biotic’ or ‘physical’ is non living like land water
air conditions atmosphere which constitutes of soil. So we can say
that physical or a-biotic environment is the environment which
includes non living or physical things which are constitutes of soil
and affect the living things.
•The physical or a-biotic environment also includes the climatic
factors such as sunbeams, rainwater, precipitation, moisture,
pressure and wind speed.
4. The Importance of Physical
Environment
•Just think, the most important thing to make house is residential space,
and for residential space, we need land area. The land area is included in
physical environment. So it is responsible for the residential for living
beings.
•The a-biotic environment like soil, water and air are the necessary
nutrients element provider for the living beings.
•All of living beings are surrounded by atmosphere; it is the combination of
different types of gases. The living beings take oxygen and other gases
from the atmosphere.
•The a-biotic environment also controls the climatic factors like weather.
•Water is one of the most necessary things for living beings. Physical
environment also deals with the water factor of the earth.
5. Biotic environment
•It is also known as biological environment and organic
environment.
•In the opposite side of the physical environment, the biotic or
biological environment is responsible for the living beings.
•You have already understood that the meaning of ‘biological’ is
living things. So, the biological environment is the environment
which involves the living part of the earth.
6. The importance of
Biotic Environment
•In this type of environment includes the plants, trees,
animals, mammals, underwater living beings including
human beings and microorganisms like bacteria and fungi.
•There is a concept which is necessary to understand. The
living beings are highly dependent to each other. For example
humans are highly depend upon plants and trees for food
and oxygen, and plants and trees are also depend upon
humans and animals because of co2
7. Social or cultural
environment
•This type of environment involves the culture and life style
of the human beings.
•The social or cultural environment means the environment
which is created by the man through his different social and
cultural activities and thinking.
•The historical, cultural, political, moral, economic aspects of
human life constitute to the social or cultural environment
8. The Importance of Social or
Cultural Environment
•Culture involves the religion of the human, relations with each
other etc. In a society there involve different types of people, they
have different religion, different thinking, which has culture of
its own and posses people having their own life style.
•The social or culture environment affects the social culture of
human beings and hence it has the great importance.
•The development of a child is highly depends upon culture and
society.
9. Environment
related problems
Climate change Global warming
Species extinction
Habitat destruction
Land degradation
Desertification
Overpopulation
Ozone depletion
Pollution
Water pollution5
