CHAPTER15 Our Environment
256 Science Activity 15.1 Our Environment CHAPTER15 We have heard the word ‘environment’ often being used on the television, in newspapers and by people around us. Our elders tell us that the ‘environment’ is not what it used to be earlier; others say that
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