environment vs scope

environment and scope both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
environment	Yes	No	No	No
scope	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scope is a hyponym of environment; that is, scope is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than environment:

environment (noun)	scope (noun)
the area in which something exists or lives	electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
the totality of surrounding conditions	a magnifier of images of distant objects
	an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
	the state of the environment in which a situation exists