Changing Environments And Societies

Question 1

Large and Long-term Processes

Answer 1

1. Human induced island change
   1.1 Trends of forest being burned or removed, decline native animals, sedimentation
   1.2 Protect what’s left have knowledge of what it was like before
2. Climatic change
   2.1 Again know what it was like before to protect it
3. Population growth
   3.1 Subsistence change (Food changes due to environment (sweet potato in cooler environment))
   3.2 Landscape alteration

Question 2

Human Induced: Extinctions

Answer 2

1. Best documented
2. Human impact varied
   2.1 Lapita site of Tongoleka (Introduced domesticates; Extinction of native birds and animals (60% of them died off))
   2.2 East Polynesia (Ground nesting sea birds, 100% extinct; Loss of marine protein in soil (No poop or dead bird fertilization))