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How does the natural environment vary from place to place?

• The natural environment comprises land, air, water, plants, and animals. These components of natural the environment vary from place to place

• Certain areas may be mountainous, some others may be deserts. For example. the northern part of India is mountainous. The extensive desert is found in the northwest.

• North India is cold in winter while southern India at the same time has a pleasant climate. Water bodies surround southern India from three sides but there are no oceans in the north

  of India

• Wheat and rice are grown only in certain parts of north India white coffee is grown in the south. Vegetation of North Inch is also different from that of south India.

The four spheres of the environment are the atmosphere. lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Their inter-relationship and interdependence are through the energy of the sun

• The atmosphere is held to earth by the force of gravity. This force of attraction is exercised by particles of matter of which the Ithosphere is composed,

• The hydrosphere is found existing on the crustal part of earth or lithosphere.

• The living organisms that constitute the biosphere exist only where land, air, and water are found.

  This interlinking and interdependence is the chief feature of life on earth.

Natural environment is ....

• everything around us that is not human-made is our natural environment.

• living things and nonliving things

• everything around us that made by human

• surrounding us

Which is a human-made environment?

• Road

• Mountain

• Sea

The theme that studies how people interact with the natural surroundings is called_.

• Regions

• Movement

• Human- environment interaction

• Location

The sum total of all conditions prevailing in our surroundings make our __________

It sustains all forms of life, and we get everything from these surroundings including air, water, food, shelter. etc It refers to the ___________________

It provides us natural resources such as wood, fuel, energy and minerals. It in this sentence refers to __________________

• Transportation

• Music system

• Television

• Environment

Most human activities affect the environment in one way or the other.

• True

• False

Many parts of the environment have already been badly damaged ___________

• by overuse or irrational use of resources like a forest. pastures and farms.

• constitute the biosphere that exists only where land, air, and water are found.