Adapting and Modifying the Environment

Source: File:Pieter Both, mountain.jpg by Herzi Pinki licensed under CC BY 2.0

PLOT A: Mountain

Questions
1. What if…? 11. What could we replace?
2. How can we improve…? 12. What could we add?
3. How will others benefit? 13. What could we eliminate?
4. What are we forgetting? 14. What might be changing about this?
5. What’s the next step? 15. What will make it work?
6. What can we do better? 16. What other ideas do you have?
7. What do you think about…? 17. What issues does this create?
8. How can we improve the quality of…? 18. What patterns do we see?
9. How can we streamline…? 19. How can we simplify it?
10. How can we change it? 20. Why do this?
Potential Answers
Question # Ideas
2 Build on it, make it flatter but in a healthy way, so we don’t mess
anything up
17 Wildlife that may live there will have to move.

6 Move smarter and nit cause more problems to the earth.

I would choose to adapt to/modify the environment. (Circle One)

Identify and explain one positive impact of the adaptation/modification.
We don’t have to kill nor move animal that may live there.
Identify and explain one negative impact of the adaptation/modification.
We may cause pollution like other parts if earth.

HISD Social Studies Curriculum 2019 World Geography Studies

 Adapting and Modifying the Environment

Source: “Southern Plain Drought” from U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

PLOT B: Area prone to drought

Questions
1. What if…? 11. What could we replace?
2. How can we improve…? 12. What could we add?
3. How will others benefit? 13. What could we eliminate?
4. What are we forgetting? 14. What might be changing about this?
5. What’s the next step? 15. What will make it work?
6. What can we do better? 16. What other ideas do you have?
7. What do you think about…? 17. What issues does this create?
8. How can we improve the quality of…? 18. What patterns do we see?
9. How can we streamline…? 19. How can we simplify it?
10. How can we change it? 20. Why do this?
Potential Answers
Question # Ideas
We can irrigate water to help with the water problem
2
17 Animals that live there can only survive in these conditions
It’d be hard but we could use thus land
10

I would choose to adapt to/modify the environment. (Circle One)

Identify and explain one positive impact of the adaptation/modification.
Humans will be able to live there
Identify and explain one negative impact of the adaptation/modification.
So e of the wildlife will die.

HISD Social Studies Curriculum 2019 World Geography Studies