Transcript What is Human Environment Interaction?

What is Human Environment
Interaction?
- Human-environment interaction looks at the
relationships between people and their
environment; how people adapt to the
environment and how they change it.
- How do people depend on their environment?
- How do people adapt to their environment?
- How do people modify the environment?
Example - Colorado River
- How do people depend on their environment?
- They rely on the river as a water source.
- How do people adapt to their environment?
- Citizens use less water- no watering yard.
- How do people modify the environment?
- Cities siphon off water from the river to meet the needs
of citizens.