Interacting with the Environment Open Book Quiz

To change the way you do something

• irrigate

• modify

• adapt

In arctic climates, people dress in _______ clothes to protect themselves from the cold.

• warm

• swim

• cool

How have people in Texas and Florida changed how they make buildings? (pg. 79)

• Use building materials that can stay up in strong winds

• Use building material that falls down easily.

• They did nothing.

True or False: People build homes in the desert that will stay cool in the day and warm at night. (pg. 80)

• True

• False

In the wetlands, what makes it difficult to grow crops?

• too much sun

• too much water

• too little water

Farming is difficult in the mountain climates because of the __________.

• sun

• clouds

• elevation

To change something, such as the physical environment

• adapt

• modify

• irrigate

To bring water in through the pipes

• adapt

• modify

• irrigate

Dams are built across rivers to ___________________.

• let the water flow

• give the beavers something to chew on

• block the flow of the water

Which is NOT a way people can help the environment?

• Farmers rotate growing different crops to not harm the soil.

• Miners plant trees after they carve out the soil.

• Throwing their trash out the window of the car onto the road

• Buy automobiles that do not pollute the air