5.8A/B: How/Why Humans Modify their Environment

How and Why Humans Modify their Environment

Consequences of Human Modification of the Environment

Positive .........................................Negative

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• First Watch: To get an understanding/enjoy it

• Second Watch: To identify POSITIVE and NEGATIVE effects humans can have on their environment

How can humans can affect their environment?

How can the environment affect the humans that live there?

Multiple Choice

The environment affects people, but people don't affect the environment.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

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

• The environment doesn't affect people

• A person waiting to see the 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

Multiple Choice

Which of the following can the environment affect?

• what people eat

• what people wear

• wher people live

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Urban farming refers to a variety of ways people can grow food in cities. Urban farming most likely

• never affects the environment

• never affects humans or the environment

• can help the environment but always harms people

• can be good for the environment and for people

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an example 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

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

Which diet is the best example of human-environment interaction?

• children who do not eat vegetables because they don't like the taste

• a person who eats potato chips while watching TV

• a farmer who grows wheat but is allergic to it and doesn't eat it

• a woman who eats fruit from the apple trees that grow in her yard

Multiple Choice

Which of the following affects the environment in negative ways?

• planting trees

• wearing a hat in the winter

• burning fossil fuels

• recycling

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