BCA Semester III - Environmental Science
Environmental Science
Updated on Jun, 2025
Language - English
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Unit I : Environmental Studies:
- Definition, scope and importance, need for public awareness. Natural resources: Water resources; use and over-utilization of surface and ground water, floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams: benefits and problems. Effects of modern agriculture, fertilizer- pesticide problems, water logging and salinity.
Unit II : Ecosystems:
- Concept of an ecosystem, structure and function of an ecosystem, producers, consumers and decomposers, energy flow in ecosystem, food chains, ecological pyramids, aquatic ecosystem (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, estuaries). Energy resources: Growing energy needs, renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Land Resources, land as a resource, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification.
Unit III : Biodiversity:
Genetic species and ecosystem diversity, bio-geographical classification of India. Value of biodiversity, threats to biodiversity, endangered and endemic species of India, conservation of biodiversity.
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