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AT ONE GO
 The Earth is home to all the living and nonliving things.

 Our environment has living and nonliving things that surround us.
 The environment can be natural or man-made.
 There are four types of pollution—air, water, land and noise pollution.

REMEMBER THESE TERMS

Environment : The living and nonliving things that surround us.
Natural environment : Surroundings created by nature and unchanged by human beings.
Man-made environment : Surroundings created by human beings by changing the natural
environment.
CNG : Compressed Natural Gas.
Cyclone : A very fast blowing circulatory wind.

Check Your Study

A. Tick () the correct answers.

1. Which of these is a fossil fuel?

(a) Coal (b) CNG (c) Solar energy

2. The cyclone which hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha was named

(a) Phailin (b) Katrina (c) Hudhud

3. CNG stands for
(a) Compressed Nature Gas

(b) Compact Natural Gas

(c) Compressed Natural Gas

B. Give an example of each of the following.

1. A natural environment:

2. A man-made environment:

3. A cause of air pollution:

4. A cause of water pollution:

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