Environment
- The environment is the place, people, things, and nature surrounding any living organism.
- It is a combination of natural and human-made phenomena.
- The environment broadly includes biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) components which are listed in the table given below.
Ecology
- The term ecology was derived from two Greek words ‘Oikos’ meaning home and ‘logos’ meaning study.
- German zoologist Ernst Haeckel used the term ‘oekologie’ (‘ecology’) in 1869 first.
- ‘Ecology may be defined as the scientific study of the relationship of living organisms with each other and with their environment.’