1. Environment: All the biotic and aboitic factors that can
affect a living organism in a place where they live.
affect a living organism in a place where they live.
2. Erosion: The
wearing away of soil surface by the mechanical and chemical weathering of rocks
by the agents of denudation.
wearing away of soil surface by the mechanical and chemical weathering of rocks
by the agents of denudation.
3. Denudation: The removal of the plants and trees that cover
an area of land.
an area of land.
4. Weathering: Chemical or physical breakdown of the minerals
in the rock.
in the rock.
5. Deforestation: The act of cutting down or burning the trees in
an area.
6. Afforestation: The process of planting trees in an area of land
in order to form a forest.
in order to form a forest.
7 Pollution: This is the introduction of substances called
pollutants into habitats (soil water, and the atmosphere). The introduction by
man into the environment of substances or energy liable to cause hazard to
human health, harm to living sources and ecological system, damage to structure
or amenity, or interference with legitimate uses of the environment.
pollutants into habitats (soil water, and the atmosphere). The introduction by
man into the environment of substances or energy liable to cause hazard to
human health, harm to living sources and ecological system, damage to structure
or amenity, or interference with legitimate uses of the environment.
8 Land: The surface of the earth that is where human, animals
and natural vegetation are found.
and natural vegetation are found.
9 Erode: To wear away.
10 Menace: Danger.
11 Metropolis: The main commercial, industrial part of a city
as distinct from the suburbs.
as distinct from the suburbs.