Man and Environment
Man and Environment
Man and Environment
RELATIONSHIP
BY
SUKHMAN CHAWLA
Introduction
Environment means the surrounding condition that
effect the lifestyle of living things.
Our surrounding includes natural and manmade
things.
Human life gates effected by the environment and
hence we find differences in the human life of
different regions.
Natural environment
All component which come into existence naturally are
included in natural environment .
The landforms on the earth , the climate , soils ,
minerals , sunlight etc are component of our natural
environment.
Cultural environment
In order to enrich his life man had used many
natural resources and in this process he has
brought many changes in natural environment .
Human settlements , roads , buildings , dams etc
have developed through this.
Interaction in environment
There are many interaction between biotic (living)
and a biotic (non living) components.
All the biotic component depend on each other.
Plants produce their food using solar energy. That
means there is an interaction between abiotic and
biotic components.
Impacts of Population growth
Industrialization
Burning fossil fuels
Non renewable resources
Pollution
Increased CO2 fuels
Acid rain
Burning of fossil fuels released
sulphate and nitrate into air .
Sulphates and nitrates mix with
water vapours in air and form
sulphuric acid and nitric acid
Acidification of lakes