Lesson 3 - Changing Biomes

Question 1

What are the 2 ways for humans to get resources?

Answer 1

1. Hunting animals that are already there naturally or gathering food that naturally grows (what we did since humans were humans
2. Altering/changing the environment to give us exactly what we want, the amount we want and at the time we want it.

Question 2

What are 5 types of changing the enviroment?

Answer 2

1. VEGETATION REMOVAL
2. AGRICULTURE
3. LAND TERRACING
4. IRRIGATION
5. MINING

Question 3

What is vegetaion removal?

Answer 3

humans either cut down or burn massive areas of land to make way for either farms or land for animals to graze.

Question 4

What is agriculture?

Answer 4

‘Agriculture’ means ‘farming’.

Farms don’t just happen – they are built specifically to grow certain crops

Question 5

What is land terracing?

Answer 5

1. A food like rice needs a lot of water and flat land.
2. In areas where there is plenty of water but no flat land, people have worked out that they
   can cut into hills to make “steps” of flat land to grow rice.

Question 6

What are the hills in land terracing called?

Answer 6

‘terraces’.

Question 7

What is irrigation?

Answer 7

If your crops need a lot of regular water, one way to ensure their growth is to install a water system that automatically watered them.

Question 8

What is mining?

Answer 8

Industrial materials that we need do not just sit on top of the Earth’s surface. We have to dig into the ground to get them.