THE ENVIRONMENT

"The environment is all external conditions and factors, living and non-living, which affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime," (Miller, 1992:144). It can also be defined as the natural conditions, such as air, water, and land in which people, animals and plants live. Conservation is the protection of natural things or resources such as animals, plants, soils, minerals and other important natural resources to prevent them being spoiled: environmental conservation. We live on …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

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