Our environment

Answer the following in brief

Q1) What do you understand by the word environment?
A) Our environment is where we live, our surroundings. It includes everything
on, in and around the earth, natural or made by humans
Q2) Draw a neat diagram of classification of environment
Q3) Why is atmosphere important to us?
A)
a. the atmosphere is layer of air that surroundings our earth
b. the atmosphere is the most important layer that life to survive on earth
c. it helps us to breath
d. its ozone layer protects us from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun
Q4) Name the components of the natural environment
A) Text book page no. 13
Q5) What is biosphere?
A) Page 15

Answer the following question in detail

Q1) What is an ecosystem?
A)
a. it is a group of plants and animals, and the physical environment with
which they interact, such as water, soil, rock, etc .Every element in the
ecosystem interact with other elements.
b. each ecosystem has biotic and abiotic components which depend on each
other, and live together in an environment that is unique
c. an environments health depends on a delicate balance among its member
and the environment.

Q2) how are the different layers of the natural environment interlinked?
A)
a. The realms of the natural environment are not separate unit, but are
interlinked
b. this interrelation is seen in the biosphere, it is here that all interaction take
plays.
c. Life on the biosphere is depended on the soil of the crust on the
lithosphere, on air from the atmosphere, and the heat of the sun through it,
and river, lakes, rain or snow from the hydrosphere.
d. In the ocean or hydrosphere, the biosphere is depended on the dissolved
nutrients of the lithosphere in its water, air from the atmosphere and the
vary habit.
e. balance of nature is the relationship between all parts of biosphere, which
interacts with each other to maintain stability or balance within nature.