THE CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENT, COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT AND THE PROBLEM FACING ENVIRONMENT
The term “ environment” refer to the surrounding and the influence surroundings have on living things. Surroundings include the living and the non living things. Thus environment include land, water, atmosphere and living things. In the environment, human beings are taken to be the center because they influence the environment and in turn it influences them. Simply environment includes everything surrounding us including ourselves. THE COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT Our environment is often divided into three components. These are the physical, the living and the cultural environment. The Physical Environment It consist of air, water, soil and rocks. The living Part of the Environment; The second component is the habitat which is the home of living things (all living things). The habitat provide conditions necessary for life to prosper. The various creatures depend on each other for survival E.g. animals depends on plants for foods, plants depends on in...