Human-Environment Interaction - Week 10 Assessment

Humans modify their environment to meet their needs by:

• building shelters and infrastructure

• changing weather patterns

• creating new species

• stopping natural disasters

How do people negatively impact the environment? Choose all that apply.

• litter

• recycle

• cause pollution

• protect animals

Push factors are usually negative. True or False?

• True

• False

Why were indentured servants and enslaved people brought to North Carolina?

• to mine for gold

• to work on farms

• to construct ships

• to build the railroad

What is an example of a pull factor?

• famine

• jobs

• persecution

• war

Planting a garden is NOT modifying the environment.

• True

• False

Textile mills moved to North Carolina after the Civil War. What effect did this have on the state?

• A. Demand for cotton decreased.

• B. The economy became weaker.

• C. The state collected fewer taxes.

• D. People moved to North Carolina.