ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

TOPIC: PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT FACTORS

DEPARTMENT: MATHEMATICS

SEMESTER: 3RD

SUBMITTED TO: Miss. ATIQA SHAHZAD

SUBMITTED BY: GROUP no.4

THE ISLAMIYA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR

CAMPUS BAHAWALNAGAR

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 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Define:

“The physical environment includes land, air, water,

plants and animals, buildings and other infrastructure and all the
natural resources that provide our basic needs and opportunities
for social and economic development. A clean and healthy
environment is important for people physical and emotional
wellbeing.”

Physical environment can be described as anything we can

physically experience through our senses such as, touch, smell,
sight, hear and taste the physical environment includes both the
natural environment and the human made environment. The
physical environment is the part of the environment surrounding
humans that contains only physical elements such as, water, soil
and so on.
Factors of physical
environment

There are some factors of physical environment

• The quality of air
• Water safety
• Food safety
• Drugs and other chemicals products
• Waste disposal
• Control of excessive noise
• Lighting
• The radiation

These are the factors which effects on the environment.

 1. The quality of air:
The air quality is measured of how clean or
polluted the air is. Monitoring air quality is important because polluted
air can be bad for our health and health of the environment. Air quality
is measured with the Air Quality Index AIQ. The AIQ work sort of like
thermometer that runs from 0 to 500 degrees. The air in our atmosphere
is mostly made up with two gases that are essential for life on the earth,
nitrogen and oxygen. The air also contains smaller amount of many other
gases and particles. AIQ tracks five major air pollutants

• Ground level ozone

• Carbon monoxide
• Sulfur dioxide
• Nitrogen dioxide
• Airborne particles

PM10 is particle matter that is less than 10

microns in diameter. The government
recommended guideline or maximum threshold
for PM 10 is 20 micrograms per cubic meter
averaged annually.
Good air quality is an important component in maintaining or quality
of life. PM 10 is one of the main contaminants of concern in New
Zealand as it effects so many people and has many health effect.
Water safety:
Water is connected to every forms of life on
the earth. As an adequate, reliable, clean, accessible, acceptable and
safe drinking water supply has to be available for various users. The
united nations and other countries declared access to safe drinking water
as a fundamental human right, and an essential step towards improving
living standards. In some countries sufficient fresh water is not available.
 The percentage of the surveyed population
who receive drinking water that complies with
the drinking water standards of New Zealand
1995 relating to E. Coli. About 85 percent of
the New Zealand population drink water from
community supplies.
Food safety:
There are many environmental factors that
affect food and feed safety. Such as, soil, air and water pollution
from industrial effluents, contamination with farm sewage,
chemicals used in agriculture etc. Food can also be contaminated
during storage, processing, distribution, commercialization,
handing and consumption. At the same time current food
production systems have an impact on environmental health and
emerging zoonosis.
Drugs and other chemical products
Any chemical
substance that effects the functioning of living things and the
organisms such as, bacteria, fungi and viruses that infect them.
Pharmacology, the science of drugs deal with all aspects of
drugs in medicine, including their mechanisms of action physical
and chemical properties, metabolism, therapeutics and toxicity.
This article focuses on the principals of drug action and includes
an overview of the different types of drugs that are used in the
treatment and prevention of human diseases.
Waste disposal:
The collection, processing and recycling
of the waste materials of human society. Waste classified by
source and composition. Broadly speaking, waste materials are
either liquid or solid in form, and their components may be either
hazardous or inert in their effects on health and the environment.
The waste is typically applied to solid waste, sewage, hazardous
waste and electronic waste.
Control of excessive noise:
Environmental noise is
defined as unwanted or harmful outdoor sounds created
by human activity such as noise emitted by means of
transport, road traffic, rail traffic and industrial activity.
Sound waves vibration of air molecules carried from a
noise source to the ear. An integrated noise policy should
include several control procedure measure to limit the
noise at the source, noise control within the sound
transmission path, protection at receivers site, land use
planning, education and raising of public awareness.
Country should give priority to precautionary measure that
prevent noise, but they must also implement measures to
mitigate existing noise problems.
Lightning
We briefly survey the direct impacts
lightning has on human societies. There are various aspects
of related effects accompanying thunderstorms during
severe storms, and these include tornados, hail and flash
flooding, but here we shall focus only on effects directly
related to the actual cloud to ground stroke of a lightning
flash.
The radiation:
Radiation has always been a
natural part of our environment. Natural radioactive
sources in the soil, water and air contribute to our
exposure to ionizing radiation, as well as man made
sources resulting from mining and use of naturally
radioactive material in power generation, nuclear
medicine, consumer products military and industrial
applications.
 Group no.4

Hussan Anmol
Farheen shahzadi
Kshaf noor
Hafiza sibra
Fahad bilal
Usman jahangeer
Muhammad younas saeed
Muhammad sabir