The surrounding external conditions influencing development or growth of people, animal or plants; living or working conditions etc. This involves the living objects in general and man in particular and the physical attributes or the sum total of condition such as land, water, and air that support and affect the life in the biosphere.
Environment
The circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms. Alternatively, it can be defined as the combination of social or cultural conditions that affect the individual and the community.
Since humans inhabit the natural world along with technological, social and cultural world, together, these constitute important parts of our environment.
The environment is anything around us. It includes energy from the sun and all the living things and the non-living things with which we interact.
Despite humankind's many scientific and technological advances, our lives depend on sunlight and the earth for clean air and water, food, shelter, energy, fertile soil, a livable climate, and other components of planet's life-support system.
Environmental systems
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Lithosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
The protective blanket of gases surrounding the earth. It sustains life on earth and saves it from the hostile environment of outer space due to the sun's electromagnetic radiation. The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen and oxygen besides, argon, carbon dioxide, and trace gases.
Hydrosphere
Comprises all types of water found on, under, and above the earth's surface.
