English Grammar and Writing Skills for Marathi students

  COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT             Environment comprises number of factors that interact with each other in some or other way so that keep the planet earth alive and support life on earth. If we closely look at these factors they form the components of the environment. These components can be grouped as Abiotic or non-living and Biotic or living components.   A. Natural Environment 1. Abiotic or Non-living Components: a) Location : The term Location in Geography has been used since very early days of Romans and Greeks. This term is derived from the Latin word locus, meaning place. It is a relative term. It expresses relative occurrence of space.             The location of a country becomes one of the most prime factors that influence the range of human activities that will develop in that country. Loc...

Environmental Protection Act (1986) defined  “Environment as the sum total of water, air, and land, their interrelationship among themselves and with the human beings, other living beings, and property.”   Definition of Environment:  The word “ENVIRONMENT” originated from the French word “Environ”,  which means to encircle or surround.   The environment literally means the surroundings in which we are living. The environment includes all those things on which we are directly or indirectly dependent for our survival, whether it is living components like animals, and plants or non-living components like soil, air, and water . The first recorded usage of the word was by Carlyle in 1827 and in 1956 it was used for the first time with the meaning we associate with it today.   Meaning Of Environmental Studies : Environmental studies are the scientific study of the environmental system and the status of its inherent or induced changes on organisms. It includ...