Human activities significantly change the Earth's surface in several ways: 1) Construction of buildings, factories, power plants, roads, and bridges requires clearing of forests, draining of swamps, and leveling of hills to make land available for development. 2) Dams are built to generate hydroelectric power, forming lakes that reduce downstream water flow and altering the surface. 3) Mining extracts metals and fuels by drilling and removing hills, mountains, and other parts of the Earth's crust. 4) Logging provides wood for construction and fuels by clearing trees from forested areas. Farming also requires deforestation to make space for growing crops to support increasing human populations.

1. How human activitieschangethe surface
of the Earth
EMMANUEL JOSH F. ORTIGUE
KARL ANGELO PACURSA

2. How do human activities
change the Earth's surface?

3. An industrial country or society
has a lot highly developed
industries with buildings and
factories.

4. Factories,Powers plantsand houses
to build factories, power plants
and houses, a lot of land is
required to make available
land for development, hills
are flattened, swamps are
filled and forest are cleared.

5. Dams
The building of dams to
generate hydroelectric
power can also change the
earth’s surface. This is
because the dams cause
lakes to form behind
them, thus reducing the
flow of water
downstream.

6. Roads andBridges
The construction of roads,
tunnels and other
transportation routes
provides easy access to
places by motor vehicles.
This can change the surface
of the earth.

7. Mining
Mining is an activity that
can greatly change the
surface of the earth.
Hills, mountains and
others parts of the
Earth’s surface are
drilled to obtain metals
and fuels.

8. Logging
With industrialisation, there
is a great demand for
building materials and fuels
for power generation.
Logging takes place in
areas that have many trees
and ores that can provide
wood and metals.

9. Farming requires large
areas of land to be
cleared for the
growing of crops. As
the human
population
increases, there is a
greater demand for
food. So, more land
for better yielding
crops are required
for farming.
Slopes are terraced for growing
rice.
Trees in forest are
cut down to make
space for crops

10. LandReclamation
Rocks and other earth materials
are excavated from hills to
reclaim land from sea. This
usually occurs for countries
with limited land for
development. For example,
Hong Kong has to reclaim land
near its coastal areas to build
housing for its expanding
population.