People Interacting with Nature

Here's my description:Every day our lives are affected by the natural world, but we rarely even think about it! In this little book, Dorothy provides five different examples of how people over time have been influenced by or are interacting every day with the natural world. Careful breeding starting with a scrawny wild plant long ago resulted in one of the world's most important crops--Corn.The importing of horses by the Spanish completely revolutionized the lives of Native Americans....
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Here's my description:Every day our lives are affected by the natural world, but we rarely even think about it! In this little book, Dorothy provides five different examples of how people over time have been influenced by or are interacting every day with the natural world. Careful breeding starting with a scrawny wild plant long ago resulted in one of the world's most important crops--Corn.The importing of horses by the Spanish completely revolutionized the lives of Native Americans. Before horseswalking was the only choice for land travel. Horses brought speed and power. Before modern communications, people separated by space had little opportunity to communicate with one another--what was thatlike for members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?And today, we are dealing with changing weather patterns due to climate change. What is weather anyway?And what is climate change and how can we fight it?