1. Human Adaptations to Environment

3. Human – Environmental Interaction
Like all animals, people must adapt to the climate, landforms, vegetation, and natural resources they find in a place where they live.
However, unlike most animals, humans also have the ability to modify, or change their environments

4. What affects our survival?
Bodies of water (Early civilizations)
Landforms
Climate
Vegetation/ Animals
Seismic Activity – (

5. Important Ideas
Humans depend on, adapt to, and modify their physical environment
Humans sometimes must respond to conditions of extreme weather or natural disasters such as..
Floods
Tsunamis
Volcanoes

6. How people Modify their environment
Agriculture - is the growing of food
Urban Growth – people modify nature by building towns and cities
Dam building – Drain Swamps, prevent swamps, and store water for drinking and Irrigation
Energy – humans modify the environment to provide energy for their needs