Challenging Environments

Challenging environments

Global distribution of extreme environments

• Explain the global distribution of each of the two kinds of extreme environment.
• Describe the relief and climatic characteristics that make these environments extreme.
• Explain how these characteristics present challenges for resource development and human habitation.

Population

• Explain the other factors responsible for a low density of population in these areas: human discomfort, inaccessibility, remoteness.
• Identify ways in which people adapt their activities to extremes of weather and climate.