COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT

 Natural Impacts
 Artificial Impacts
 Impacts on Air
 Impacts on Water
 Impacts on Land

In this unit, we will have an overview of the various natural and artificial
impacts on air, water, land. Before we proceed you have to understand that
impacts are created by both nature and man. But the impacts of man are more
pronounced. In this unit, we shall only mention the various impacts which the
student may be already aware. A detailed study of these impacts is the scope of
the topic “Stress on physics, chemistry and biology of water owing to impacts”.
Therefore in this chapter, the impacts of nature and man on air, water and land
would be listed.

NATURAL IMPACTS
 Volcanic Eruptions
 Forest Fires
 Dusty Wind Storms
 Pollen grain Pollution
 Decay of organic matter
 Cyclones & Tsunami
 Climatic Changes

ARTIFICIAL IMPACTS
 Industrialization
 Over Population
 Deforestation
 Use of Automobiles
 Fertilizers/Pesticides
 Over exploitation of natural resources
 Wars & Nuclear explosions
IMPACTS ON AIR
 Acid Rain
 Photo Chemical Smog
 Atmospheric Inversion
 Urban Air Pollution
 Green House Effect
 Ozone Layer depletion

IMPACTS ON WATER
 Eutrophication
 River Water Deterioration
 Ground Water Contamination
 Ocean Pollution

IMPACTS ON LAND
 Soil Erosion
 Desertification
 Solarisation
 Deforestation
 Land Slides