UNIT 1ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGYWARM-UP1) What do you think the term environment refers to?2) What environmental issues are you concerned about?3) Have you ever heard of the word ecology?READINGThe term environment broadly indicates the surroundings of an individualorganism or a community of organisms, ranging on up to the entire biosphere,the zone of Earth that is able to sustain life. By surroundings is meant all thenonliving and living materials that play any role in an organism's existence,from soil and air to what the organism feeds on and the organisms that mayfeed on it. Any other factors acting on the organism, such as heat and light andgravitation, make up its environment as well. In the case of human beings,cultural factors may also be included in the term...