Landforms are natural features that make up the Earth’s surface. As humans, there are reasons to change landforms. This could be for reasons such as shelter, protection, and to please the human eye. There are also people that change the land we live on such as construction workers and army engineers. Throughout history, Landforms have changed to benefit people especially for shelter or in the recent few hundred years, permanent dwelling of what we call houses, apartments and condos.
People have been changing land forms for shelter through the start of man and woman. Thousands of years ago, shelter started without changing much the land. People changed the land to build their houses out of sticks or they lived in caves that were already there. People did not change the land they lived on too much because they did not have the tools or the need to do so. There was also not a large human population to compete with like we have today.
In more recent history, people of different cultures built their houses into the land. Take a look at some of the Native American tribes. Some tribes built their homes in the side of mountains. They did this for many reasons especially because it was easy shelter. It was easy for them to do and convenient as the cliffs were there. The same hold true of people from the past in the Middle East. They also lived in mountains. Their homes were made with holes in the side of the mountain but look like giant houses that we build today. As time went on, the tools improved to help people build in many areas of the world including mountains.
One of the neatest examples of how people changed a Landform to have a place to live is during the time of the middle ages. When Jesus was alive and before that people made their homes out of the stone in the land. This stone was used all over the place. This includes the building of irrigation systems and sewer systems. Water was brought in for city drinking water as well as baths. It was an amazing system that architects still model after today. With out changing landforms people would not be able to have a large community living close together like they started to in the Middle East.
Even a few hundred years ago, people lived in homes made out of the plains landforms. A plains area is a flat area of land with not a lot of trees. So one way people were creative is they constructed homes out of the Earth. Their houses were made of earth and the roofs were made of grass. It was a very neat thing to see houses made of mud and dirt. This left a lot of resources left in the land and did not changes much of the landforms.
In the more recent history, landforms such as forests and swampy areas have been changed for businesses and places to live. Business have taken over once was farm areas and massive forests to establish a community of work. Houses were then added near swamp areas for people to live and close enough for people to drive to work. The trees were used to build the homes and building. These landforms were demolished for people to live and work.
When looking at the change of landforms to benefit where we live today, land forms have changed drastically because of the change in population. We now have millions upon millions of homes that are over two thousand square feet. We have farms that feed us food near by where it was once a prairie. We have changed many land forms for a place to live. It is a far cry from the shelters of the past.
With the increase of population landforms are changing. Where once was a swamp, forest or hill landform, is now homes for a shelter and building for us to work. In the recent past, we have changed landforms at an alarming rate for our convenience. It is a lot different from a thousand years ago where landforms were built out of clay and sticks. Humans have done this for a more convenient place to live and for protection but it has had an effect on our landforms. If we want to keep our beautiful landforms we may want to think about the shelters we live in today.
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David Olmst has been writing about and researching landforms for the past 10 years. He has his own landform website at http://worldlandforms.com For the love of land forms!
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