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What makes up the environment?
The Natural Environment And The Man-Made Environment
You have learnt that the environment is everything that surrounds us.
Observe carefully the picture in Figure 1.
Name the features which you can see in Figure 1.
These features form part of our environment.
The air we breathe, the water in our rivers and seas, the mountains and hills, the land
on which we grow crops, and the coral reefs surrounding us are natural features in
the environment.
Sugar cane elds, maize elds, gardens, houses and roads are man-made features in our
environment. Can you say why these features are called man-made features?
Natural features make up the natural environment.
Man-made features make up the man-made environment.
FIG. 1 A Locality SHOWING NATURAL AND MAN-MADE FEATURES
DISCUSS & SHARE
THE
ENVIROnment
THE NAtural
environment
NAtural
features
man-made
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THE man-made
environment