Environment: Functions and Threats
Environment: Functions and Threats: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Carrying Capacity of Environment, Functions of the Environment, Global Warming and Ozone Depletion etc.
Important Questions on Environment: Functions and Threats
Write short notes on: (i) Global Warming; (ii) Ozone Depletion.

What is meant by environment? Briefly discuss its various functions?

What do you mean by global warming? Why does it occur? How can it adversely affect the earth?

Discuss the various reasons for environmental crisis?

State and discuss any two environmental concerns faced by India in the present times?

Discuss in brief, the meaning of ozone depletion?

Define Absorptive Capacity of the Environment?

State the two major environmental issues that the world is facing today?

How has the supply-demand relationship led to degradation of environment?

Why have some resources become extinct?

What has led to depletion of ozone layer?

What do you mean by ozone depletion?

What has caused global warming?

What is global warming?

How the opportunity costs of negative environmental impact are high?

Define Carrying Capacity of Environment?

Give the meaning of renewable resources?

What do you mean by non-renewable resources?

What is included under abiotic elements?

What do you mean by biotic elements?
