SS Lesson 3.3

The environment is all of the things that people find around them.

• True

• False

People change their environment to meet their needs and make life _______.

• harder

• easier

People long ago had many problems growing crops. Choose two reasons why.

• Rabbits, mice, and bugs ate the young plants.

• Weather was also a problem.

• They grew crops fine long ago.

Technology is the use of new objects and ideas in everyday life.

• True

• False

Better tools make planting and harvesting crops faster and ______.

• easier

• harder

Long ago, people planted seeds by hand. Today, ______ plant many seeds at a time.

• machines

• people

• soil

Hydroponics is a kind of farming that does not use _____.

• water

• hydroponics

• soil

In dry weather, today’s farmers do not use pipes and sprayers to bring water to crops.

• True

• False

People long ago had to change the land before they could plant crops.

• True

• False

People use technology to change their environment to meet their needs.

• True

• False