1. How have people adapted to the environment?
OBJECTIVES:
I can give examples of how people adapted to and modified the physical environment.
Key Words
Environment
Adapt
Modify
Irrigation
ACTIVITIES:
Adapt and Modify Notes
Guiding Questions:
How have people adapted to the environment?
How have people modified the environment? :

2. What are some factors that affect where people live?
WARM-UP
What are some factors that affect where people live?

3. Human/Environment Interaction
The environment affects not only where people live but also how people live.

4. Climate Landforms Bodies of water Vegetation Animals
Environment
Climate
Landforms
Bodies of water
Vegetation
Animals

5. Burrow, Alaska

6. Human/Environment Interaction
What will you be able to do at the end of the lesson?
Define adaptation and modification.
Give examples of how people adapt to and modify their environment.

7. Human/Environment Interaction
There are two main ways people interact with their environment (nature):
1. They adapt to it
2. They modify it

8. Human/Environment Interaction
When people adapt to their environment they do not change it.
They change their lives to fit the environment.
People’s choice of food, shelter, clothing, sports is impacted by their environment.

9. Human/Environment Interaction
Examples:
People who live in hot climates wear clothes that keep them cool.

10. Human/Environment Interaction
How did the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic in this picture adapt to their environment?

11. Human/Environment Interaction
The Inuit designed their clothes for protection from the harsh cold climate. Traditional clothes are made of caribou or sealskin and include parka, pants, mittens, and boots.

12. Human/Environment Interaction
Examples:
People also design their shelter depending on the environment they live in.

13. Human/Environment Interaction
In dry desert climates, builders of homes make windows small to keep out the sunlight.

14. Human/Environment Interaction
People who live in areas with lots of trees may build their houses out of logs.

15. Human/Environment Interaction
IGLOO
How did these people adapt to their environment?

16. Human/Environment Interaction
These people had to adapt to environment with lots of snow and used snow to build their homes.

17. Human/Environment Interaction
Write down or draw at least one additional example of people adapting to their environment.
Hint: food, sports.

18. Human/Environment Interaction
When people modify their environment they change it.
They build roads, bridges, canals, dams, irrigation systems, take natural resources out of the Earth, etc.

19. Human/Environment Interaction
Examples:
The people of New Orleans built levees to control the flooding of the Mississippi River.

20. Human/Environment Interaction
Examples:
People of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt build irrigation systems.

21. Human/Environment Interaction
How have people modified the environment in this picture?

22. Human/Environment Interaction
How have people modified the environment in these pictures?

23. Human/Environment Interaction
How have people modified the environment in this picture?