water environments

The abiotic environment includes the air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere) and land (lithosphere). The biotic environment includes the plants, animals and the microbe..

Organism and Environment - Each and every living organism has its specific surrounding medium of environment with which it continuously interacts and remains fully adapted. The environment is the sum total of physical and biotic conditions influencing the responses of ..

Summary - Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. It has two components - abiotic and biotic. The abiotic environment includes the air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere) and land (lithosphere). The biotic environment includes th..

Environment and its Problems..

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Adaptation to Environment In Animals - Animals too have to face the problem of water scarcity or abundance. They also have to meet the various vagaries of nature. So, for their survival under these conditions, animals have developed a number of adaptations to meet the challenges..

Realising the changes in global climate and human interferences resulting in such changes, many global conferences are held in order to reach consensus among countries to plan and implement the measures to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change. They were 1) Stock Holm conference in 1972 c..

Summary - Ecology concerns with the associations and interactions of the organisms and the environment in general. The living place or dwelling place of an organism is called habitat. Within a given habitat there exists variations or micro habitats. In a given habitat we can observe physi..

Conservation is defined as judicious use to avoid wastage of materials and degradation of environment. Conservation of environment involves the conservation of the natural resources. The non-renewable resources have to be conserved as they cannot be replenished. The reserves of ..

Introduction - The term ecology is derived from two Greek words (oikos - means 'house' or place to live and logos means 'a discussion or study'). Literally, ecology is the study of organism 'at home' in their native environment. The term was first introduced by Reiter in 1868, but was ful..