Human Environment Interaction

What question does the theme: Human Environment Interaction ask?

• How do humans negatively impact the earth?

• What is the relationship between humans and the environment?  

• How are humans and their environment similar?

What are the three ways humans interact with their environment?

• depend, modify, love

• adapt, depend, positive

• depend, modify, adapt

• adapt, modify, negative

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

• depending

• adapting

• modifying

Explains how people affect the environment & how the environment affects people. 

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

• Region

Which of the 5 themes of geography refer to modification and adaptation?

• movement

• regions

• human-environment interaction

• location

• place

Cutting down trees to build a house is an example of which theme of geography?

• location

• place

• movement

• human-environment interaction

How people impact their environment is included in which theme of geography?

• Location

• Place

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

The relationship between people and their environment

• Movement

• Region

• Human Environment Interaction

• Location

• Place

Match each of the following definitions to their correct type of Human/Environment Interaction.

• Modify

• People using the soil to grow crops for food

• Adapt

• People building large cities on what used to be forest land

• Depend On

• People wearing heavy clothes in colder climates

Choose the three examples of human-environment interaction.

• mining coal

• drilling for natural gas

• landfill projects

• humans adapting to and modifying the environment

• positive and negative effects.