environmental factors
External condition variables
Environmental factors are external conditions that influence organisms, systems, or outcomes—distinct from internal or genetic causes.
In health contexts, environmental factors include diet, pollution, climate, and living conditions: The study controlled for environmental factors like smoking and air quality.
In business or psychology, the term covers any situational variables affecting results: We can't ignore environmental factors when evaluating performance.
- air qualityPollution level measurement
- noise pollutionHarmful environmental sound
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
- natural disastersCatastrophic environmental events
- biodiversityRange of life forms
food chain · altitude · renewable energy sources · temperature · ecosystems · natural habitat · sunlight · microorganisms · invasive species · toxins · precipitation · seasonal changes · growing season · pollution · climate change · carbon footprint · ozone layer · soil composition
- Human Developmentgrowth, heredity, aging, genetics, puberty
- external forceseconomic factors, market forces, demographics, economic growth, interest rates
- Pregnancy Factorsprenatal care, folic acid, folate, prenatal testing, placenta
- neurodevelopmentneural tube, neurogenesis, neuroblast, neuroblasts, neural tube defects
- Learning Obstaclesmotivation, burnout, plateaus, information overload, skill gaps
- twinstwins, identical, fraternal, monozygotic, dizygotic
environmental factorsgenetic factors
Inherited biological influences
genetic traits · inherited traits · genes · heredity · genetics