Answer the following questions.
(i) What is an ecosystem?
(ii) What do you mean by natural environment?
(iii) Which are the major components of environment?
(iv) Give four examples of human-made environment.
(v) What is lithosphere?
(vi) Which are the two major components of biotic environment?
(vii) What is biosphere?
Answer the following questions.
(i) What is an ecosystem?
(ii) What do you mean by natural environment?
(iii) Which are the major components of environment?
(iv) Give four examples of human-made environment.
(v) What is lithosphere?
(vi) Which are the two major components of biotic environment?
(vii) What is biosphere?
(i)Plants, animals and human beings depend on their immediate surroundings. These relations of dependence and interdependence of biotic and abiotic component together constitute an ecosystem.
(ii)The environment that consists of all objects created by nature is called natural environment. The natural environment comprises land,water, air, plants and animals.
(iii)The major components of environment are natural environment (consists of all objects created by nature), human environment (consists of human beings) and human-made environment (consists of objects created by human beings).
(iv)Parks, buildings, roads and industries are some examples of human-made environment.
(v)Lithosphere (or the domain of land) is the solid crust or the hardtop layer of the Earth. It is made up of rocks and minerals, and is covered by a thin layer of soil. It is an irregular surface with various land-forms such as mountains, plateaus, plains and valleys.
(vi)The two major components of biotic environment are plants and animals.
(vii)Biosphere is the narrow zone of the Earth where land, water and air interact with each other to support life.
(i)Plants, animals and human beings depend on their immediate surroundings. These relations of dependence and interdependence of biotic and abiotic component together constitute an ecosystem.
(ii)The environment that consists of all objects created by nature is called natural environment. The natural environment comprises land,water, air, plants and animals.
(iii)The major components of environment are natural environment (consists of all objects created by nature), human environment (consists of human beings) and human-made environment (consists of objects created by human beings).
(iv)Parks, buildings, roads and industries are some examples of human-made environment.
(v)Lithosphere (or the domain of land) is the solid crust or the hardtop layer of the Earth. It is made up of rocks and minerals, and is covered by a thin layer of soil. It is an irregular surface with various land-forms such as mountains, plateaus, plains and valleys.
(vi)The two major components of biotic environment are plants and animals.
(vii)Biosphere is the narrow zone of the Earth where land, water and air interact with each other to support life.
