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How do we Adapt?

This informative text explores how people in Louisiana adapt to their environment, particularly in dealing with frequent flooding. It covers the building of levees, raising homes to avoid floodwaters, and the impact of human activities on the environment, such as air and water pollution.

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How do we Adapt?

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  1. How do we Adapt?

  2. Adapt- to adjust to different conditions and the environment

  3. How do People in Louisiana Adapt to the Environment? Louisiana experiences a lot of flooding

  4. Why does Louisiana experience so much flooding? • The land in New Orleans is located below sea level. This means that the land we sit on is lower than the height of the Gulf of Mexico and other bodies of water.

  5. How do we adapt to being Below Sea Level? • We build levees to protect our cities, homes, and even crops from flooding. • Levees- artificial structure build to protect flooding from a body of water

  6. How do we Adapt to living below sea level? • We also raise our homes to avoid flood waters

  7. How have Humans affected the Environment in Louisiana? • Air Pollution- Air pollution is when unwanted chemicals, gasses, and particles enter the air and the atmosphere causing harm to animals, plants, and people.

  8. Oil Refineries • Do you know what a refinery is? An Oil refinery is a factory where crude oil is transformed or changed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum, gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, and jet fuel.

  9. Oil Refineries • Louisiana is home to MANY refineries that pollute the air

  10. Water Pollution • As we have learned, in 2010 there was a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. • This polluted the land, air, and mostly water. • Many animals and fish were killed or harmed.

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