Some important definitions related to environmental studies

Some important definitions related to environmental studies 

✨ENVIRONMENT
     Environment is everything that is around us. It can be living or non-living things. It includes physical, chemical and other natural forces. Living things live in their environment. 


✨ECOLOGY 
     The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.



✨ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
      A program that focuses on the scientific study of the origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and natural history of living populations, communities, species, and ecosystems 

✨Biotic components
      Biotic components or biotic factors, can be described as any living component that affects another organism, or shapes the ecosystem. This includes both animals that consume other 



✨Abiotic components
      In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. 

✨ Pollution 

      Pollution is something introduced into the environment that is dirty, unclean or has a harmful effect. Toxic waste dumped into the water is an example of pollution. 

✨Pollutants

     are substances that pollute the environment, especially gases from vehiclesand poisonous chemicals produced as waste by industrial processes. 

✨Ecosystem 

    An ecosystem is a large community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in a particular area. 

✨ Atmosphere 

    The atmosphere is the layer of gases around the Earth. 

✨ Food chain 

     A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature.

✨FLORA AND FAUNA 

Flora is plant life; fauna refers to animals. 

✨Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. This is called urbanization. 

✨Global warming is the observed and projected increases in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans.

✨The hydrosphere is the part of a planet that's made of water. Oceans, rivers, lakes, and clouds are all typically included in the hydrosphere. 

✨The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the Earth. 

✨Consumer: is an organism that feeds on plants or other animals for energy. 

✨Consumers are categorized into primary consumers, secondary consumers, and the tertiary consumers. Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants. Secondary consumers, on the other hand, are carnivores, and prey on other animals.

✨Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and other things make food. 

✨A natural resource is what people can use which comes from the naturalenvironment. 

✨A renewable resource is a resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally. Renewable energyalmost never runs out

✨A nonrenewable resource is a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption.

✨Deforestation is when forests are destroyed by cutting trees (logging) and not replanting them. 

✨afforestation. : the act or process of establishing a forest especially on land not previously forested.

✨An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria are autotrophs.

✨. A heterotrophis an organism that cannot manufacture its own food

✨Energy flow is the amount of energythat moves through a food chain. 

✨A food web is similar to a food chainbut larger.

✨Population explosion 

     The rapid increase in numbers of a particular species, especially in the world's human population 

 Hope it will help you!! 

  All definitions taken from google✌🏻🙌

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