Human Environment Interaction

True or False: The environment affects people, but people don’t affect the environment.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of the environment affecting a person?

• The environment doesn’t affect people.

• a person waiting to see a doctor at a hospital

• a woman cooking dinner with the fish she caught from a river

• a child buying her favorite chocolate bar at a new candy store

A boy wears shorts and lightweight clothing in a hot climate. This is an example of ________.

• a person having a positive effect on the environment he lives in

• a person being affected by the environment he lives in

• a person destroying the environment he lives in

• a person who does not interact with his environment at all

Which of the following can the environment affect?

• what people wear

• what people eat

• where people live

• what people do for a living

True or False: Ancient civilizations, including the Romans and Egyptians, modified their environments.

• True

• False

Which of the following are examples of people being affected by their environment?

• people building houses from sod, or soil and grass, on the Great Plains where trees are rare

• Native Americans building houses from clay dug from the ground in the Southwest

• people who live in Nebraska, far away from the ocean, eating fish

• Native Americans making clothing from cedar tree bark in the Northwest

Desi is a farmer who lives in a rural mountain town far from cities with no trees. One way he might adapt to this particular environment is by ________.

• moving to a big city when he graduates from college

• terrace farming to grow crops in a mountain region

• never learning to ski, ice skate or hike

• making houses and furniture out of tree bark

Adapt means...

• to rely on

• to change to fit a new situation

• to change or make different

Modify means...

• to rely on

• to change to fit a new situation

• to change or make different

Depend means...

• to rely on

• to change to fit a new situation

• to change or make different