Introduction
Living things like you depend on other living and nonliving things found in your environment for food, shelter, protection, and reproduction. Your environment is made up of everything that surrounds you. This environment provides the conditions that you need to maintain life.
You interact with both living and nonliving components of your environment and these components also interact with each other in different ways.
For example, living things like plants use nonliving things such as soil, sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to produce their food. These plants in turn become food for animals. Even organisms like fungi and bacteria feed on dead waste material and make things break down and rot. Several ecological relationships exist between and among these components and enable them to survive.
