Human Adaptations to Environment

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

What affects our survival?

• Bodies of water (Early civilizations) • Landforms • Climate • Vegetation/ Animals • Seismic Activity – (http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtRko8y4Fo)

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

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