MODIFICATION

OF THE
LANDSCAPE
How the landscape affects human actions
and vice versa
 What is
ENVIRONMENTAL
MODIFICATION?
 Lesson Objectives

• How humans adapt the landscape

• The environmental impact and

how it changes the environment

• Responsible Modification of the

environment
 Think about it
Humans have been changing the
physical landscape for centuries to fir
their needs.

• Can you think of ways this is done?

• What do you think are the effects of
these changes to the environment?
 Environmental Modifications

DAMS URBANIZATION

Control the flow of water from natural

Growth of cities and other human
communities.

AGRICULTURE
sources. Also used for irrigation and to Plots of land are cleared for farming and
prevent flooding of areas inhabited by
MINING
The process by which precious minerals and
ores are extracted from the earth.

caring for livestock.

humans
 MINING URBANIZATION
The process by which precious minerals Growth of cities and other human
and ores are extracted from the earth. communities.

Environmental Modifications
 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
How the environment changes

ENDANGERED SPECIES
ECOSYSTEM CHANGE Modification of the environment can
As humans change the environment, it result in the displacement of different
affects the natural cycle of the ecosystem animal and plant species, resulting them
that once was there. becoming endangered.
 RESPONSIBLE
MODIFICATION

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES EDO-FRIENDLY MATERIALS

Find ways to implement changes that Use materials that are recyclable or
have less negative impact. biodegradable.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Use equipment that use less energy or
use renewable energy sources.
 YOUR TURN!
Take a step back in time and look at how your area
was twenty years ago:
• What are the changes that it has undergone since? What
is gone and what is new?
REFERENCES
Puyallup School District. Human Geography. Puyallup School District, 2015,
www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/16294.

How People Modify the Environment. (n.d.). Retrieved July 27, 2022, from
https://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/userfiles/4188/Classes/7526/humanforcesthatcha
ngeenvironment.pdf?id=448117
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PRESENTATION PREPARED BY JAFFY F. BUSTAMANTE