ENVIRONMENT
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species. The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components:
•Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries. •Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from human activity. The natural environment is contrasted with the built environment, which comprises the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans. A geographical area is regarded as a natural environment. |
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Discussion on Environment
It is difficult to find absolutely natural environments, and it is common that the naturalness varies in a continuum, from ideally 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other. More precisely, we can consider the different aspects or components of an environment, and see that their degree of naturalness is not uniform. If, for instance, we take an agricultural field and consider the mineralogic composition and the structure of its soil, we will find that whereas the first is quite similar to that of an undisturbed forest soil, the structure is quite different.
Environment may refer to:
•Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
•Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
It may also refer to:
•Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
•Knowledge environment, social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery
•Natural environment, all living and non-living things
•Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in and the people and institutions with whom they interact
•Physical environment, in ecology.
Environment may refer to:
•Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
•Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
It may also refer to:
•Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
•Knowledge environment, social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery
•Natural environment, all living and non-living things
•Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in and the people and institutions with whom they interact
•Physical environment, in ecology.
Environment in Pictures
Broad Categories in Environment
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