Concept information
Preferred term
natural environment
Definition
- The natural environment or natural world encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or some parts of Earth. This environment encompasses the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity. The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished as components. Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive civilized human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, the atmosphere, and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries and their nature. Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from civilized human actions. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment)
Narrower concepts
- arid environment
- deep marine environment
- deep water environment
- deposit environment
- ecosystem
- forest
- freshwater environment
- fynbos
- grassland
- lacustrine environment
- marine environment
- oligosaline environment
- paleoenvironment
- palustrine environment
- savanna
- semi-arid environment
- shallow marine environment
- shallow water environment
- shrubland
- steppe
- surface water environment
- tundra
- wetland
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-FZC5N7HX-Z
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