Adaptation
The term for the way humans change to suit their environment.
What is adaptation?
The term for how people change the environment based on their needs.
What is modification?
This is when people rely on their environment for something they need.
What is dependence?
This negative impact occurs when forests are cleared and trees are not replanted.
What is deforestation?
Human/Environment Interaction is the third major theme of this subject.
What is Geography?
Wearing well-insulated clothing is an adaptation to this type of climate.
What is a very cold climate?
An example of modifying the environment is building this to control the flow of water.
What is a dam?
We depend on natural resources like coal, gas, or wind to produce this for our homes.
What is power?
This occurs when something with a harmful or poisonous effect is introduced into the air and water.
What is pollution?
The three categories of HEI are how people are changed by, change, and do this in the environment.
What is depend on the environment?
In a desert, people may adapt by using this animal to transport goods.
What is a camel?
To create land for farming, people might modify the environment by doing this to a forest.
What is clearing it?
People depend on these waterways to transport goods.
What are rivers?
The process of fertile land becoming a desert, which can be caused by inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
Often, a person's adaptation leads to them depending on and eventually doing this to the environment.
What is changing it?
People in wet climates adapt their farming by choosing plants that grow best in these areas.
What are wet areas?
A person might use these to water their lawn in a dry climate.
What are sprinklers?
The reading gives an example of depending on the environment by using these plants for medicine.
What are herbs?
If the "balancing act" isn't done well, we may lose the ability to do this with the environment.
What is continue using it?
The reading states that it can sometimes be difficult to tell which of these something falls under.
What are the three categories?
Someone in the Arctic must adapt by building a warm shelter and eating what is found here.
What is around them?
The text states there is no place on Earth where humans can live without doing this to the environment.
What is changing it?
In the arctic example, people depend on the environment for fur for clothing and this for food.
What is meat?
A major goal of studying HEI is to be productive for humans without leading to these for both humans and the environment.
What are negative outcomes?
The "key question" of this theme is how to adapt and depend on the environment while creating the least amount of this.
What is negative change?