Human-Environment Interaction - Getting Started

The study of how humans affect/change the environment and how the environment affects humans

• Human-Wildlife Interaction

• Human-Ecology Interaction

• Human-Geography Interaction

• Human-Environment Interaction

Which of these are examples of people changing their behavior due to environmental factors?

Click all that apply.

• build a shelter to protect from heat, cold, or storms

• polluting

• use irrigation to bring water to fields

• deforestation

Is growing food well-suited to the climate where you live an example of

adapting or modifying the environment?

• adapting to the environment

• modifying the environment

Which of these are examples of the actions of

people affecting or changing the environment?

Check all that apply.

• pollution

• deforestation

• using irrigation to bring water to fields

• animal extinction

Match the following

• change the environment

• adapt to the environment

• change to fit into the environment

• Modify the environment

• rely upon the environment

• depend on the environment

Two types of natural resources are:

• renewable

• Natural

• Unnatural

• nonrenewable

Match the following

• nonrenewable

• a resource that cannot be replaced in a relatively short time

• renewable

• a resource that Earth or people can replace

• coals, natural ores, petroleum

• Examples of renewable

• water, plants, animals

• Examples of nonrenewable

Match the following

• Use sunscreen to protect skin from sun

• Depend on the environment

• air pollution

• Modify the environment

• Humans need air to breathe

• Adapt to the environment

Match the following

• The sun gives nutrients and Vitamin D

• Modify Environment

• Cutting down trees to build a road

• Depend on Environment

• Using hats and gloves to stay warm

• Adapt to Environment

Match the following

• Build irrigation ditches to water crops

• Depend on Environment

• Eat locally grown food

• Adapt to the Environment

• Build homes on stilts at the beach

• Modify the Environment