EARTH SCIENCE: The Environment, Natural Resources//BIOLOGY: Ecology, Human-Animal Interaction Learn about the enormous impacthumans have had on our planet'slandscape AS YOU READ, THINK ABOUT the variety of ways peoplehave altered Earth's surface and how that's affectedthe natural world. HIGHWAYS AND ROADS This photo depicts a "spaghetti junction", anickname given to a complex, interweavingsystem of highways. And, "whenthere's a fragmentation of the forest, itdisrupts animals' ability to move acrossthe landscape to find food and mates,"says DeFries. [Extracted from the article]
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