1. + Human Changes to the Environment

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

3. + 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

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

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

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

7. + Modification A small adjustment or change.

8. + Irrigation A system of transporting water to crops

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

10. + Tilling To plow the land for the raising of crops

11. + Dike/Levee Strips of elevated land along a river

12. + Canal An artificial waterway for navigation and irrigation

13. + Dam A barrier to obstruct the flow of water