NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Environmental degradation occurs when a potentially renewable resource-one of the biotic or abiotic factors humans need and use-such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife-is extracted at a rate faster than the resource can be replaced, and thus becomes depleted.

Detailed explanation-2: -1. Depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable resource such as soil, grassland, forest, or wildlife by using it at a faster rate than it is naturally replenished. If such use continues, the resource can become nonrenewable on a human time scale or nonexistent (extinct).

Detailed explanation-3: -Resource Depletion occurs when the renewable and non-renewable natural resources become scarce because they are consumed faster than they can recover. The term resource depletion is commonly associated with water usage, fossil fuel consumption, trees and fishing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Air Pollution, water pollution, solid wastes, agrochemicals, radioactive wastes, greenhouse effect and global warming, ozone depletion, improper resource utilisation and deforestation are some of the main causes of depletion of natural resources.

Detailed explanation-5: -Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.