Four Natural Resources Introduction

        Natural Resources Introduction 

    

INTRODUCTION: The Environment is comprised of two major categories of components: the living environment and the nonliving environment 

  LIVING  THINGS :The living environment consists of all of the plants and animals that live in a particular habitat, region, area or biome. At the lowest level, these make up a community.
 NON -LUVING  THINGS : The nonliving environment contains the components that are not alive. These are the physical components which can be summarized as soil/rock, air, water and sun.

Types of environment

Soil:Soils are complex mixtures of minerals, water, air, organic matter, and countless organisms that are the decaying remains of once-living .. 

   

There are 6 main soil types

           1. Clay 

           2. Sandy 

           3. Silty 

           4 . Pratt

           5. Chalky 

           6. Loamy 

Air :the invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.
   

            TYPES OF AIR 

            

 

Water :a colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms

Sun:  

• he Sun provides energy in the form of light. The energy from the sun is used by green plants to make food by photosynthesis. This provides the base level of the food chain. The green plants are the producer organisms which utilize the Sun's energy to make food. Animals which eat the plants are known as primary consumers. They, in turn, are food for secondary consumers which eat them. This constitutes a basic food chain.
sun ------> green plant ------> animals

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