The conditions that surround someone or something is called environment. The environmental conditions influence and affect the health, growth and progress of someone or something.
Environment can be said as the total of all the surroundings which includes natural forces, other biotic and abiotic factors that provide conditions for the development and growth as well as damage and dangers.
Environment includes chemical, physical and all the natural resources. It includes all living as well as non-living things with which we have any interaction. Living things include the biotic elements such as plants and animals while non-living or abiotic things include air, sunlight, water etc.