Adaptations
Growing plants and raising animals for food and other needs.
Agriculture
The regular paths animals follow when they move from one place to another during different seasons.
Migration
The kind of plants farmers choose to grow, such as corn, rice, or wheat.
Crop type
A long time without enough rain, making it hard for plants and animals to live.
Drought
Farming in ways that don’t dig up or damage the soil too much.
Minimizing soil disturbance
The roads, buildings, and systems that help people live and work in a place.
Infrastructure
How animals or people find and get the food they need to live.
Accessing food
How much food or plants farmers are able to grow and harvest.
Crop production
When too much water covers the land, often after heavy rain.
Flooding
Keeping plants or mulch on the ground to protect the soil from washing or blowing away.
Maintaining soil cover
What people wear to protect their bodies from the environment.
Clothing
When animals have babies or plants make seeds, often based on the seasons or weather.
Timing of Reproduction
How healthy and rich the soil is for growing plants.
Soil quality
When land or forests burn, sometimes naturally or from human activity.
Fires
Making sure not to waste water when watering plants or cleaning.
Using water efficiently
The way people and goods move from one place to another, like cars, buses, or trains.
Transportation
The number of animals of a certain kind living in one area.
Animal Population
How easy it is for people, plants, or animals to get the water they need.
Water access
Strong winds that can cause damage, like hurricanes or tornadoes.
Windstorms
Taking only what’s needed from nature so there’s still enough left to grow again.
Sustainable harvesting practices
Fun activities people do for enjoyment, like playing sports or going to the park.
Recreation
Catching only a few animals so the population stays healthy.
Limiting hunting and trapping
Changing the type of crops grown in a field each season to help keep the soil healthy.
Crop rotation
Making choices today that help people keep growing food in the future.
Considering future harvests
Growing certain plants next to each other because they help each other grow.
Companion planting