Natural Resources

Our Environment provides us with a variety of goods and sevices necessary for day-to-day lives.These natural resources incliude air,water,soil and minerals,along with the climate and solar enargy,which form the non living ot 'aboitic' part of nature.The 'Boitic'or living parts of nature consist of plants and animals,including microbes .Plants and animals can only survie as communities of different organisms,all closely linked to each in their own habibat,and requiring speicfic abiotic conditons.Thus forests,grasslands,deserts,mountains,rivers,lakes and the marine environment all form habitats for specialised communicates of plants and animals to live in,The interactions between the abiotic aspects of nature and specific livinng organims to gether form ecosystems of various types .Many of these living organims are used as our food resources.Others are linked to tour food less directly,like bees as pollinators and dispersers of plants,soil animals like worms,which recycle nutrients for plant growth,and fung! and terminates that break up deed plant meterial so that microganisms can act on the detritus to replenish soil nutrients.