Environment is defined as the total planetary inheritance and the totality of all resources.

(1) Biotic Factors

It Involves:-

(2) Abiotic Factors

Birds Animals

Plants Forest

Biotic factors

Water

Land

Air

Abiotic factors

Resources

The main function of the environment is that it

supplies resources to us.

Renewable Resources

Non-renewable Resources

Renewable Resources

Renewable resources are those which can be

used without the possibility of the

resource becoming depleted or exhausted.

Trees in Forest

Fishes in the Sea

Non-renewable Resources

Non-renewableResources, on the

other hand, are thosewhich get exhausted

with extractionand use.

Fossil fuel

Resources

Environment

Environment supplies us the useful resources as per our needs and regenerate them continuously.

But if,Resource Extraction > Rate of Generation

Problem of Environmental Crisis arises.

Users- Human Beings

Causes of Environmental Crisis

Huge amounts on technology and

research to explore new resources.

Increased Financial

Commitments

Health costs of degraded

environmental quality

Decline in air and water quality

Medical cost against health diseases

Cost of Environmental Crisis

It is clear that the opportunity costs of negative

environmental impacts are high.

Hence, the environmental issues of waste generation and pollution have

become critical today.