The Physical Environment

1
The Physical Environment

• How does the weather affect my life and those of
  the rest of the world?

2
What is weather ?

• Condition of the atmosphere for a period of not
  more than 24 hours
• Types of weather
• From pleasant
• to stormy
• The different types of weather in turn influences
  our lives in many ways

3
Influences

• My dress code
• What we eat
• Types of houses we live in
• Disasters eg
• floods drought

4
Is this a two way street ?

• Not only does the weather influence us but we
  often influence the weather
• How
• Economic activities often mess up the physical
  environment eg pollution from factories
• The results are bad news for us
• Acid rain
• Green house effect
• Elnino etc
• Disasterous for us and future generation

5
Sustainability

• We are jeopardising the chances of the future
  generations to meet their own needs
• What can we do?
• Promote values that is good for the environment

6
Conclusion

• There are many ways in which the weather
  influence us
• Some very pleasantly so
• Others very bad.

• respect mother nature and she will respect us