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Environmental Studies
Mohammad Shohag
Lecturer, DoWPE
BUTEX
Curriculum Details
- Credit of the course is 3.
- Hour/Week 3.
- Total Hour 45.
- Total Week 15.
Part A Part B
1. Introduction 1. Water Pollution
2. Air Pollution 2. Solid Waste In Wet Process
3. Noise Pollution
4. Regulatory Issue
1.CLASS ATTENDANCE =8
2.CLASS TEST (5×4) =20
3.FINAL =72
TOTAL =100
Reference Book:
Physical
Hydrosphere
component.
Lithosphere
Abiotic Producer
Biological
Environment
component.
Biotic Consumer
Society Decomposer
Cultural
Economy
component.
Politics
Components of environment
(1) Physical Components:
• Physical component of environment includes air, water, soil,
light, temperature, climate, etc. are also termed as abiotic
components of the environment.
• These environmental components accounts for determination of
living conditions for the human population.
• Physical component of the environment is again classified into
three parts as follows:
• Atmosphere (gas)
• Hydrosphere (liquid)
• Lithosphere (solid)
These three parts portrays the three important states of matter
forming the environment.
(2) Biological Components:
• Biological component includes all living things like plants, animals
and small micro-organisms like bacteria, algae and fungi. These
interrelate with the abiotic component of the environment.
• Interaction of these two components forms various ecosystems like
forest ecosystem, pond ecosystem, marine ecosystem, desert
ecosystem, etc.
• All ecosystems has three different types of living organisms; i.e.
producers, consumers and decomposers.
• Producer includes mainly green plants and other
photosynthetic bacteria which produces organic food materials.
• Consumers rely on green plants for their living.
• Decomposers are responsible to decompose dead plants and
animals for the running of the natural cycles.
Degradable
Non-
Pollutants
degradable
Toxic
pollutants
Hazardous
pollutants
Carcinogenic
pollutants
Classification of Pollutants:
On the basis of natural disposal, pollutants are of two types:
(i)Non-degradable pollutants: Non degradable pollutant do not
degrade or may degrade at a very slow rate in environment.
These are inorganic compounds such as salts (chlorides), metallic
oxides waste producing materials like aluminum cans, mercuric
salts etc. More dangerous because it is more difficult to remove.
(ii)Biodegradable pollutants: These include domestic sewage that
easily decomposes under natural processes and can be rapidly
decomposed by natural/ artificial methods. These are garbage,
sewage, livestock etc. These cause serious problems when
accumulated in large amounts as the pace of deposition exceeds
the pace of decomposition of disposal.
Important Problems(Lecture-01)
1. Define environment and discuss about its components.[6].{2016}.
2. Briefly describe the components of environment and pollutants.
[4]. {2019}
3. Define pollution and pollutant.[2]
4. Explain in brief about some common forms of pollution.[4].
{2015}.
5. Differentiate between degradable and non degradable pollutants.
[2].{2016}.
Lecture – 02
Topics to be covered