People’s Effect

on the
Environment
Chapter 5
Section 3
 First Level
Activities
• First-level activities- direct
interaction with raw materials,
provide food, and resources that
people need to live
• Creating farmland
– Cut down forests
– Drained swampland
– Destroying habitats for countless
species of animals
• Environmental Challenges
– Deforestation- loss of forest
cover in a region
– Deforestation can lead to the loss
of Biodiversity- richness of
different kinds of living things
• Fertilizers and chemicals increase
yield, but has negative effects on
water supplies
• How do we feed the world but be
environmentally friendly?
• Finding a balance
– Planting tree farms
– Natural farming-less yield, but
safer on water supplies and fish
– Limit fishermen’s catches and
only catch fish that there are
plentiful

– Will this work? What are the

problems?
Second and Third Level
Activities
• Second-level- industries
(factories)
• Third-level- services

• Created our landscape of housing

developments, offices, railroads,
and highways
• Providing Jobs, Reshaping the
Environment
– Industrial and service industries
provides the majority of jobs in
developed nations
– Civil Engineering- technology
for building structures that alter
the landscape, such as dams,
canals, roads, and bridges
– Environmental downfall- loss of
green areas, water run-off from
pavement
• Environmental Challenges
– Pollution- waste that makes air,
soil or water less clean
– Industry output, trash from
people, and automobile exhaust
all contribute to pollution
– Some scientists believe that this
pollution is the cause of global
temperature change and climate
change