Human and Environment

Environment- The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives.

- Human beings as a rational social partner of environmental action.

- Man has an important role to secure its own future on earth and to protect life on earth.

- Man should realize that his own future depends on his own action.

Basic components of the environment

Atmosphere

- It includes all the gases that surround the earth.

a.Troposphere b. stratosphere c. mesosphered. thermosphere

Lithosphere - The segment made of

mantle of rocks constituting the earth crust.

a.Coreb. mantlec. crust

Hydrosphere - It refers to all the water on

the earth.

Biosphere- Refers to all the life forms that range from unicellular to the most sophisticated multi- cellular organisms that inhabit the earth.

Environmental Problems in the Philippines

• Water pollution• illegal loggers• poverty and malnutrition• crowding • air pollution • improper disposal of garbage