Haiti - Human Environment Interaction

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

The French made the Haitian slaves harvest (mùa gặt) the same crop every year which has the country’s soil infertile. So now Haitians have a difficult time farming because the soil washes away when it rains.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

Houses in Haiti are built by using any materials that they can find like mud for their walls. This meant that most of them collapsed easily in the 2010 earthquake.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

A lot of people had to get food and water from charities giving aid because they lost their jobs and homes from the 2010 earthquake.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

Some three million people were affected by the 2010 earthquake, they had to live in tents for temporary shelter.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

Most Haitians need firewood for energy (electricity), unfortunately this means there is a lot of deforestation which leads to flooding and soil erosion (xói mòn), which made the effect of the 2010 earthquake worse.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

Water systems were damaged after the earthquake, people need water to survive so many still drank the dirty water that made them very sick.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

The earthquake also caused landslides in areas with deforestation, this destroyed many homes in the surrounding mountainous areas.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

Many Haitians were taken by helicopters to hospitals in other countries because roads were badly damaged!

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

What type of human environmental interaction is this?

People were digging through the rubble with their bare hands to find people who were stuck under buildings.

• Adapt - People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment

• Modify - people have changed the environment to fit their needs

• Depend - People need the environment

Adapt (People changed themselves or what they do to match the environment)

Finish the sentence :

After the 2010, the people in Haiti had to adapt to their environment by

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