CH 1 ENVIRONMENT

Abiotic factors include sunlight, temperature, moisture, wind or water currents, soil type, and nutrient availability.

Soil is only non-living components. So it is not a biotic component of the environment.

Biotic factors include animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and protists. Some examples of abiotic factors are water, soil, air, sunlight, temperature, and minerals.

When fossil fuels are burned, they release nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, which contribute to the formation of smog and acid rain. The most common nitrogen-related compounds emitted into the air by human activities are collectively referred to as nitrogen oxides.

But at ground level, ozone is an air pollutant that harms people and plants. Ground-level ozone forms when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds react with each other in sunlight and hot temperatures. This pollution comes from vehicles, industry, and other sources and contributes to smog formation.

Both high arterial blood pressure (BP) and elevated levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution have been associated with an increased risk for several cardiovascular (CV) diseases, including stroke, heart failure, and myocardial infarction.

Four Components of Environment The four major components of environment include lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, corresponding to rocks, water, air and life respectively. Lithosphere is the outermost layer of earth called crust, which is made of different minerals.

Answer. is that environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest while biosphere is the part of the earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.

Environment refers to the surroundings, whereas, ecosystem is the interaction between the environment and the living organisms. Environment is the area where living organisms live. Ecosystem is the community where the biotic and abiotic elements interact with each other.