How Native Americans Adapted to their Environment
What resources provided food for the Native Americans?
The rivers, forests, fields, and desserts
What is deforestation?
The loss of forests
What is the name of the Dam built in the 1930s?
The Hoover Dam
What is a natural disaster?
An event that occurs in nature. It damages the environment and causes danger to living things
What is Pollution?
The presence of something harmful in the environment.
By killing animals and wearing their skin/hyde.
True or False:
Extinct and Endangered is the same thing.
False
How do we turn the energy of moving water into electric power?
Who is at risk for hurricanes?
People who live on coasts.
(Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, Hawaii)
What is Littering?
Not properly disposing of trash.
How did Native Americans use water?
They used water for travel and trade. They also used it for food like fish and ducks.
(answers may vary)
ex: dinosaur, saber tooth tiger, wooly mammoth
What is a canal?
A human-made waterway
Who is at risk for wildfires?
The West. (Like California)
How can we reduce pollution?
(answers vary)
Ex: Throwing away trash, not throwing cleaning products or cooking oil down the sink, not littering, reducing gas emissions, carbon footprint
How did the Native Americans use forests to survive?
How do we effect the soil on our land?
Soil erosion - the wearing away of rock and soil by wind or flowing water
The Hoover Dam was the tallest dam in the world
True
Who helps a community when a natural disaster happens?
Local and State Governments.
Define atmosphere
Layers of air and gases between earth and space.
How did Native Americans use Fire?
To clear land for building and farming.
In order to build roads and buildings, what do we have to do?
Knock down trees, get rid of forests (deforestation)
When/Where did Hurricane Katrina hit?
New Orleans and the Eastern Gulf Coast in 2005.
What is the ozone layer?
The part of the atmosphere that protects Earth from dangerous sun rays.
(Earth's Sunscreen)