1. Human Environment Interaction
Chapter 5, Section 3
Human Environment Interaction

2. Vocabulary
Nomad
Beringia
St. Lawrence Seaway
Lock
Urban Sprawl

3. Early Pueblo culture in the Southwest
A.   Clay and rocks for housing
B.    Plants and animals provided food and clothing
They survived because they adapted to their environment
Why are many pueblos ruins?

4. Settlement and Agriculture Alter the Land
Adapting to surroundings
Corn, beans and squash
Agricultural giants
A.   All along the migrations, the original nomads adapted to their surroundings.
B.    With agriculture, people settled, forests were cleared to make field and provide lumber and firewood. In dry areas irrigation ditches were dug. Corn, beans and squash originated in the Americas.
c. Both the US and Canada are leading exporters of agricultural products.

5. Building Cities Location, location, location Going underground
Out of control?
A.   Where a city is built and how it grows depends a great deal on its physical setting.
B.   Montreal favorable location is on an island in a Navigable river, but the winter is long and cold. Many newer developments have been built under ground.
L.A. has a mild climate all year. With all the land suitable to build houses on, it grew and grew throughout the years—urban sprawl.

6. Overcoming Distances Many Obstacles Trail Blazing Trails and canals
A.     As people moved across the land, they encountered many obstacles.
B.     The first nomads blazed trails as they moved down into America
C.     When the Europeans came, they colonized the eastern seaboard, then they also blazed trails as they moved westward: National, Wilderness roads, Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. The first major canal was the Erie Canal.
D.     St. Lawrence Seaway was built in the 1950s in a cooperative US/Canada effort.
E.      The building of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 was a major step in the peopling of the west—LA would probably not exist without it.
F.      Canada’s was finished in The US has the largest railway system, Canada’s is the 3rd largest.
In the 20th century, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation in the US and Canada.

7. Questions
What is the name that archaeologists give to the land bridge over which the first nomadic peoples came into North America?
Panama
The Golden gate
Beringia
Bridgelandia
c. Beringia

8. 2. What do we call the mechanisms that help to raise or lower a ship so that it can go far inland and bypass rapids and waterfalls?
Locks
Bagels
Shipovaters
Sluices
a. Locks

9. 3. What term do we use to describe the uncontrolled growth of a city?
Fat city
Metropolitan overgrowth
Urban sprawl
Urban diffusion
c. Urban Sprawl