Question

What are the Components of the Environment ? Give an example to show how the components interact among themselves to form an Ecosystem.

Answer 1

Instructions:

• First, give clear cut demarcation between the components of Environment. Give examples of the components. (2 Marks)
• Show the interaction with an example(3 Marks)

Solution:

The components of Environment are :

• Natural Environment
  • Biotic Components - People, Trees, Animals
  • Abiotic Components - Sunlight, Air, Clouds
    
• Human Made Environment
  • Buildings, Roads, Vehicles

Interaction among the Components of Environment

• Let's take an example of Deer and Flower. Deer needs food and therefore, it eats flowers to get the energy and nutrients it needs.

Correspondingly, when Deer dies and its nutrients get mixed with the soil, the seed of the flower absorbs the nutrients to grow into a full flower.

This is how two biotic components interact.

• Also, the Flower and the Deer needs abiotic components such as sunlight, water to live. So, we can see that even the Biotic components interact with Abiotic components.