Human Environment Interaction in Latin America

Human-Environment
Interaction




WALT: Students will be able to evaluate how humans and the environment affect one another.

Negative impacts on the environment are cutting all the trees down, removing stones, using natural resources to create building materials. Over mining and agriculture of the landscapes that can't be no longer used

​Negative

People can have a positive impact on the environment by cleaning up litter, protecting endangered species, conserve energy.

​Positive

Positive and Negative Interactions

People Modify their environment to meet their needs. Which is changing the place where they live. Building homes and schools. setting up irrigation and farming systems. Then building roads and bridges to travel. Cutting down trees for lumber and to make farmland

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​Modifying the Environment

Multiple Choice

What is a positive affect on the environment?

• Recycling used materials

• Deforesting the lands lumber

• Factories polluting the air, water, and soil

• Using natural resources for building houses

​Adapting to the Environment

People adapt to their environment to meet their basic needs and to survive. This means people change how they live based on the environment. Everything from plants and animals to the weather can change the way people live. The people must adapt to the climate. For example when it gets colder we put coats on to stay warmer and wear lighter clothes in the summer.

Multiple Choice

Building dams, plowing and irrigating fields, and digging mines are examples of...  

• depending

• adapting

• modifying

Multiple Choice

In ancient times, the annual flooding of the Nile River produced good soil for growing crops.  This is an example of...

• adapting

• modifying

• depending

Multiple Choice

How do humans affect their environment?

• positvely

• negatively

• both