Geography/Map Skills
Adapt vs Modify
Physical Features
History of Survival: All 3 Eras
Modifications
100
This is categorized as a change to themselves or their own actions.
What is adapt/adaptation?
100
Before settling in villages, humans were commonly known as this because they moved from place to place.
What is Nomadic?
100
This is a positive outcome that helps humans survive.
What is a benefit?
200
This continent is located East of the Pacific Ocean and North of the Indian Ocean.
What is Asia?
200
This is categorized as a change to the environment.
What is modify/modification?
200
People would find it difficult to survive in this physical feature because it's a very hot and dry environment.
What is a Desert?
200
The growing of crops and raising of animals helped people settle down in permanent homes.
What is agriculture?
200
This is a negative outcome that harms humans or the environment.
What is a cost?
300
People would survive best near this physical feature because it provides fresh water.
3 Extra Points: People during this era also depended on this physical feature to grow their own food.
What is a River?
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
The Industrial Revolution changed people's lives by moving many workers from the countryside to the city.
What is Urbanization?
300
Cutting down trees changes the environment through this process.
What is deforestation?
400
This climate zone would be found North of the Arctic Circle and South of the Antarctic circle.
What is the Polar Zone?
400
This physical feature would lead to smaller populations because of the inability to build homes and grow food.
What is a Mountain?
400
These buildings increased during the Industrial Revolution and changed how goods were produced.
What are Factories?
400
This is the process where people bring water from one area to another to help them farm and grow their crops.
What is irrigation?
500
This line of latitude experiences the hottest temperatures because the sun directly hits this area of the earth.
What is Equator?
500
Explain something humans can do to adapt in a very hot and dry environment.
Criteria for Success: answer + detail
One thing humans can do to adapt in this environment is wearing lighter clothes like a t-shirt and shorts to feel cooler.
500
Explain how a plain would lead to larger populations.
Criteria for Success: answer + detail
A plain would lead to larger populations because it is an area of flat land that allows people to grow crops and build permanent shelters to survive.
500
The Industrial Revolution had a major impact on the environment due to the use of factories and machines.
What is air pollution/climate change?