+ Human Changes to the Environment

+ What does your group think these words mean? Irrigation Tilling Dike Levee Canal Dam Slash-and-burn farming

+ Predict with your group what you think your word means. Come up with a definition as a group and write it on your dry erase board

+ During the Neolithic Revolution, early people had to make certain ADAPTATIONS or MODIFICATIONS to their PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT.

+ Neolithic Revolution The shift from hunting and gathering to permanent agricultural settlements

+ Physical Environment Everything around you that you can see and touch.

+ Modification A small adjustment or change.

+ Irrigation A system of transporting water to crops

+ Slash-and-burn farming Cutting down and burning all trees in an area to make the land ready for farming

+ Tilling To plow the land for the raising of crops

+ Dike/Levee Strips of elevated land along a river

+ Canal An artificial waterway for navigation and irrigation

+ Dam A barrier to obstruct the flow of water