Question

Tick the correct answer.
Which is not a component of the human environment?
A- Land
B- Religion
C- Community
D- None of the above

Answer 1

Hint
The human environment concerns individuals living in various settings, their behaviours and the environmental characteristics they have produced. Some examples for the components of human-environment are Government, Vegetation, Population etc.

Complete answer:
Option A) Land- It is the correct answer. Land is not a feature that is created by humans, it is a feature that is created by the environment. Hence, it is a component of the natural environment and not the human environment. Therefore, it is the correct answer.

Option B) Religion- It is an incorrect answer. A region's social and economic growth also depends on people's religious affiliation. Depending on religious faith, certain practices are either promoted or discouraged. Cows are considered sacred in India for example, and beef production and marketing among Hindus is not permitted.

Similarly, drinking liquor and the cultivation and rearing of pigs are not at all promoted in Islamic countries. On the other hand, there are no such constraints among Christians and thus, economically and commercially, they are more advanced.

It is obvious that humans have developed all these social norms, so religion is a part of the human world.

Option C) Community- It is an incorrect answer. Traditionally, all the world's races have been categorized into white, yellow and black. It is possible to define the intrinsic racial characteristics of these three races in economic, social and political growth. White people living in the temperate regions of the world are more involved and as such, economically underdeveloped than black people living in hot humid regions.

Similarly, Japanese, Korean and German employees have much higher productivity than their counterparts in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The people of Punjab and Haryana are more involved and interested than those living in north-eastern India in doing hard work.
Again these variations are a function of human nature and culture, so society is a part of the human world as well.

Option D) None of these- It is incorrect because option A) land is the correct answer.

Therefore the correct answer is A

Note
As the global human population continues to expand, so does our environmental impact, too. It is dazzling the creativity with which our species has harnessed natural resources to meet our needs. However, even as we increase our hold on the environment, long-standing ecological balances are destabilized by the escalating scale of anthropogenic behaviour. The hazards of mining, refining and use of fossil fuels now go beyond occupational or proximate threats to global climate change.