Technology

How has the use of technology expanded the capacity of people to modify and adapt to their environment?

• Agriculture and Automobiles

• Energy Usage and Transportation

• Airplanes

• All of these

Humans can grow more food and harvest it faster due to technology in

• Energy Usage

• Transportation

• Agriculture

• Automobiles

Technology has helped agriculture

• People have tractors and machines that can help them farm

• People can make chemical fertilizers that help plants grow faster and bigger

• People use pesticides to kill bugs that destroy plants

• Using different types of energy: solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear

Technology has allowed humans to use different types of energy

• mechanized

• solar and wind

• geothermal and nuclear

• chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Most of the power in the world is produced by

• Nuclear

• coal

• oil

• natural gas

Problems with burning fossil fuels is

• produces radioactive waste

• causes pollution

• people don't think it's safe

• limited amount of oil and coal

Nuclear power is another option but

• many people don't think it's safe

• it produces radioactive waste

• causes pollution

• limited amount of oil and coal

Technology has radically changed how humans get from place to place

• because people can make chemical fertilizers that help plants grow faster and bigger

• because there are better road and a network of railroads to quickly transport humans and goods

• because of the internal combustion engine

• because people use pesticides to kill bugs that destroy plants

Airplanes make it

• easier and faster to travel

• like wind power, geothermal power, energy from fossil fuels and nuclear fission

• so people can make chemical fertilizers and pesticides

• so people can use mechanized farming

Airplanes

• create noise

• allow people to live in suburbs

• create other environmental concerns

• need roads and parking lots