What is the role of the environment?

Question

I have to do folio on this topic.
I would really appreciate if u could write something about the role of the environment.
Forest :
Rivers :
etc.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here's a quick review of what an environmentalist does. An environmentalist is a person who is concerned about environmental problems and knows a lot about the environment. But an environmentalist is also an advocate. That means that he or she looks for ways to protect the environment from pollution and destruction and tries to teach others how to protect the Earth also.

To help archaeologists, an environmentalist tries to understand how the landscape was formed, how people adjusted to the land and climate, and how people helped to change the land. If we understand how people of the past used and changed the land, we can make better choices about how to use the land today.

In your unit you will look at tree rings. Tree rings can tell you many things about climate, especially how wet or dry it was. Tree rings are wider during wet years and more narrow during dry years. A tree grows one ring each year so you can actually count the rings to see how hold the tree was. This is sometimes used in archaeology sites to tell how old the site is. This is called "dendrochronology." It is sometimes complicated so special labs have been set up to do the work.

by the way, we have the same user name only mine is in Greek. Μυστήριο- mustério mysterous

Answer 2

I would like to point out that although nature is something that keeps us alive, it is also a threat. So, something like harmony has to be sought. This is what contemporary politics is getting wrong.

Greenhouse gasses do not threaten anyone directly. There are those that do not agree with the theory at all. Things like diseases are a whole different matter. There is surely less uncertainty about the predictions concerning the inflicted, their prognosis.

I would definitely mention the place of humans in the environment, at least peripherally.

Answer 3

Hi Mystery,

In deference to Μυστήριο- mustério mysterous, who took alot of space to answer the wrong question......

Environment refers to a complex of surrounding circumstances, conditions, or influences in which a thing is situated or is developed. Environment is the external forces affecting living things, while nature is the inner force.

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a term that comprises all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth or some part of it (e.g. the natural environment in the United States). This term includes a few key components:

Complete landscape units that function as natural systems without massive human intervention, including all plants, animals, rocks, etc. and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries.

Universal natural resources and phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water and climate.

Natural features which occur within areas heavily influenced by man (such as wild birds in urban gardens).

The natural environment is contrasted with the built environment, which comprises the areas and components that are heavily influenced by man. A geographical area is regarded as a natural environment (with an indefinite article), if the human impact on it is kept under a certain limited level (similar to section 1 above). This level depends on the specific context, and changes in different areas and contexts. The term wilderness, on the other hand, refers to areas without any human intervention whatsoever (or almost so).

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The term generally does not include manufactured objects and human interaction unless qualified in ways such as, e.g., "human nature" or "the whole of nature". Nature is also generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the galactic.

The word "nature" derives from the Latin word natura, or "the course of things, natural character."[Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. This is well shown in the first written use of the word φύσις, in connection with a plant. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.

Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. It is often taken to mean the "natural environment" or wilderness – wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. This more traditional concept of natural things which can still be found today implies a distinction between the natural and the artificial, with the latter being understood as that which has been brought into being by a human or human-like consciousness or mind.

All forms of life interact with the environment in which they exist, and also with other life forms. In the 20th century this premise gave rise to the concept of ecosystems, which can be defined as any situation where there is interaction between organisms and their environment.

Ecosystems are composed of a variety of abiotic and biotic components that function in an interrelated way. The structure and composition is determined by various environmental factors that are interrelated. Variations of these factors will initiate dynamic modifications to the ecosystem. Some of the more important components are: soil, atmosphere, radiation from the sun, water, and living organisms.

Each living organism has a continual relationship with every other element that makes up its environment. Within the ecosystem, species are connected and dependent upon one another in the food chain, and exchange energy and matter between themselves as well as with their environment.


An aerial view of a human ecosystem. Pictured is the city of ChicagoEvery species has limits of tolerance to factors that affect its survival, reproductive success and ability to continue to thrive and interact sustainably with the rest of its environment, which in turn may have effects on these factors for many other species or even on the whole of life. The concept of an ecosystem is thus an important subject of study, as such study provides information needed to make decisions about how human life may interact in a way that allows the various ecosystems to be sustained for future use rather than used up or otherwise rendered ineffective. For the purpose of such study, a unit of smaller size is called a microecosystem. For example, an ecosystem can be a stone and all the life under it. A macroecosystem might involve a whole ecoregion, with its drainage basin.

The following ecosystems are examples of the kinds currently under intensive study:

"continental ecosystems", such as "forest ecosystems", "meadow ecosystems" such as steppes or savannas), or agro-ecosystems,
systems in inland waters, such as lentic ecosystem"s such as lakes or ponds; or lotic ecosystems such as rivers,
oceanic ecosystems.

Another classification can be made by reference to its communities, such as in the case of a human ecosystem. Regional groupings of distinctive plant and animals best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude, and terrain are known as biomes. The broadest classification, today under wide study and analysis, and also subject to widespread arguments about its nature and validity, is that of the entire sum of life seen as analogous to a self-sustaining organism; a theory studied as earth system science (less formally known as Gaia theory)

I have posted all these words, and I haven't begun to scratch the surface of your question. Unfortunately your question is very close to asking the meaning of life. Most insightful persons would answer that question with the number 47.

Good luck.