INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, the study of environmental education is required for every citizen.The NCERT has introduced a new curriculum and develop the EVS textbook for class 3 to 4 in an integrated form.

The NPE 1986 to create consciousness of the environment ant all section of society.

The geographical environment is mainly concerned with the interaction between physical and cultural environment. The natural and cultural environment combine to form the total environment and man survives in this environment. If they wants to survive they have to maintain ecological balance. Ecology and environment are interrelated. The ecology means the study of organisms in their natural habitat.

As Odum define ecology as the study of relation of organism or the science of inter relationships between living organism and their environment. Encyclopedia of Britamica define that it is the science of inter relationships of organisms to one another and to other factors that comprise their environment.

The rapid growth of population is the major cause of stress and pressure on environmental resources throughout the world. Different natural resources are in the process to be depleted by excessive use. The excessive use and misuse of resources have produced imbalance in the atmosphere and is regularly threatening nature and life both.Thus men have become the leading cause of environmental problems and such in balance of environment, we must understand their own environment.