Components of Environment

Question 1

What are the components of the environment?

Answer 1

Place, people, things and nature that surround a living organism is the environment

Question 2

What do we classify the environment?

Answer 2

1. Natural
2. Human
3. Human Made

Question 3

Natural Environment can be sub divided into?

Answer 3

1. Biotic (Living)

2. Abiotic (non living)

Question 4

What are the domains of the environment?

Answer 4

1. Lithosphere
2. Hydrosphere
3. Atmosphere
4. Biosphere

Question 5

What is the Lithosphere

Answer 5

1. It’s the crust/top layer of the earth
2. Contains the rocks and minerals covered by a thin layer of soil
3. It’s uneven - from tall mountains to low ocean floors and everything in between

Question 6

What is Hydrosphere?

Answer 6

1. All the water on the earth is the hydrosphere
2. Found in all forms - solids, liquids and gas
3. In oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, groundwater etc.

Question 7

What is the Atmosphere?

Answer 7

1. It’s a thin layer of air surrounding the earth held down
   by gravity
2. The 3 main components of air are Oxygen, Carbon di-oxide and Nitrogen
3. The air protects us from harmful UV light and controls the temperature

Question 8

What is the Biosphere?

Answer 8

1. It’s the living world which supports life of animals and plants
2. Consists of 15 lakh organism species
3. Its the narrow zone where the Lithosphere, Atmosphere and Biosphere meet

Question 9

What is the Human Environment?

Answer 9

1. Humans adapt to their natural environment and change it to suit their needs
2. Includes Individual people, families and communities and social institutions like religion, economy and polity
3. Over time humans

Question 10

How did humans adapt to their environment?

Answer 10

1. Hunting and Gathering
2. Clearing grasslands for agriculture
3. Clearing forests to establish cities

Question 11

What is Human Made Environment?

Answer 11

All the things humans have created, from cities, roads, factories etc.