The document summarizes key environmental terms including flora, fauna, contamination, and environment. It defines flora as the plant species found in a geographic region, fauna as the animal species in an ecosystem, and contamination as pollution that alters the natural environment. The document also provides that environment is the external factors influencing a system.

1. Edition #One
April - 2013
Environment
Flora
fauna
On 5 June every
year, is celebrated
globally on World
contamination Environment Day

2. Environment
environment is a complex
of external factors acting
on a system and
determines its course and
form of existence. An
environment can be
considered as a superset in
which the system is given a
subset. It may consist of
one or more parameters,
physical or otherwise. The
atmosphere of a given
system must necessarily
interact with living things

3. Flora
The set of plant species that can
be found in a geographic
region, which are
characteristic of a geological
period or living in a particular
ecosystem. The number of
plant species serves the
vegetation while referring to
the distribution of the species
and the relative importance for
individuals number and size of
The term flora, from the
each of them. Therefore, the
Latin, alludes to Flora,
flora, according to climate and
Roman goddess of flowers,
other environmental factors,
gardens and spring.
determines the vegetation.

4. Fauna
Wildlife is all the animal
species that inhabit a
geographic region, which are
characteristic of a geological
period or that can be found in a
given ecosystem

5. Contamination
Pollution is detrimental alteration of
the natural state of a medium as a
result of the introduction of an agent
oblivious to that environment
(pollutant), causing instability,
disorder, harm or discomfort to the
ecosystem, in a physical or in a living.

6. Contamination
It is always a negative alteration of the
natural state of the environment, and
generally, is generated as a result of
human activity considered a form of
environmental impact.

9. Editorial Group
• Ruth Da Costa C.I
18297881
• Luisana Gil C.I
• 24165972

10. Bibliography
• Wikipedia.org
• Google.com