https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment Social Studies Website en-us 2017-11-08 00:19:10 UTC 2025-11-18 19:59:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png shahs24 https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204640956 New species of animals have been introduced by humans into this area, like the donkey, which would help and cooperate with the humans that tamed them.]]> 2017-11-08 01:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204640956 shahs24 https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204641630 They introduce foreign industries to the area such as converting land into pastoral areas, mines which create pollution, and military bases that disrupt the natural habitat.

Another Consequence is tourism, where visitors dump non-biodegradable waste in the deserts causing harmful effects such as extinction to flora and fauna, and pollution being released into soil, groundwater, and the air.]]> 2017-11-08 01:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204641630 shahs24 https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204643392 Humans also have reservations to save endangered animals and other threatened species living in the desert.

After wildfires occur, many groups of people replant organisms (plants) that perished in the fire.]]> 2017-11-08 01:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204643392 shahs24 https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204643888 Drivers leave tracks on the ground, which can also destroy the vegetation there, and the animals that eat that food could die of starvation.

Atomic testing would completely destroy the area around it. It was done pretty often about a hundred years ago.

Water mining was also, and is also another reason of destruction of the Sahara Desert.]]> 2017-11-08 01:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shahs24/Human_Modifications_on_the_Environment/wish/204643888