Adaptation and Modification Quiz

The word “modificar” means “_________.”

Where do the foods that people eat and the clothes they wear come from?

• the government

• the wind

• the environment

• the grocery store

To ______ means to change how we live to adapt to our physical environment.

What word means "to change the environment"?

• identify

• modify

• petrify

• amplify

Where are people likely to build their houses on stilts?

• wetlands

• deserts

• plains

• mountains

Where can we find drought-resistant crops?

• in the desert

• in wetlands

• in the plains

• in the ocean

Why do people drain wetlands?

• to irrigate a desert

• to trap alligators

• to create farmland

• to build a ranch

Which of these statements about mountains is NOT true?

• Tunnels modify mountains.

• People in the mountains wear warm coats.

• Farmers use terraces in the mountains.

• Mountains are warm.

When people use boats and canoes in the wetlands, they are _________.

• modifying the wetlands

• adapting to the wetlands

• transporting the wetlands

• hunting alligators in the wetlands

People _________ the wetlands by draining the water.

• modify

• destroy

• renew

• improve