Dependence: Humans rely on natural resources for survival and daily life.

- Water, land, forests, minerals

Adaptation: People change their behavior or structures to survive in different environments.

- Houses on stilts, warm clothing, irrigation systems

Modification: Humans change the environment to meet their needs.

- Dams, deforestation, mining, urbanization

Impacts:

- Positive: increased food, improved living conditions, economic growth

- Negative: pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity, worsened natural disasters