📚 Part 1: Understanding Our Environment

1. What is an environment?

Only the buildings where people live

The air, land, water, and life around us

Just the animals in nature

2. Which describes an urban environment?

Small towns and farms

Areas close to cities with houses and parks

Cities with highways and office buildings

3. What are natural resources?

Things from nature that we use

Buildings that people construct

Roads and bridges

4. Check all the ways people change the environment: (Select all that apply)

Building dams across rivers

Planting trees to replace cut ones

Drilling for oil

Building roads and bridges

✏️ Part 2: Cause and Effect

5. Fill in the blanks:

A dam is a _____________ across a river or stream.

To irrigate means to move _____________ to dry land.

When people plant trees or protect fish, they are _____________ natural resources.

6. Write an effect that changing the environment can have:

7. Write one way that people change the environment to meet their needs:

8. Explain one positive way people can help the environment and one negative effect of changing the environment:

Positive way: _________________________________________________

Negative effect: _________________________________________________

🌍 Part 3: Think and Apply

9. Match each environment type with its description:

Urban

Suburban

Rural

Small towns and farms

Cities with office buildings

Areas close to cities with houses

10. Draw or describe one way you could help protect the environment in your community:

People Change Our Environment

People Change Our Environment

📚 Part 1: Understanding Our Environment

✏️ Part 2: Cause and Effect

🌍 Part 3: Think and Apply

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