Think for a minute about what happens to you and your family when the weather changes from fall to winter. What do you do...do you get your winter coat or jacket? If so, you have just made an adaptation, or a change, based on the climate.

Directions: Compare the clothing in the two pictures below and answer the questions that follow in your notes. How do people adapt to the climate they live in?

Image of native Hawaiians eating poi in front of a grass hut. There are two men kneeling and one adolescent male dressed in only a loin-covering. There is one child seated; there is an adolescent female and adult female seated.

Source: Native Hawaiians eating Poi, Strohmeyer & Wyman, Library of Congress

Image of a family of Alaskan Natives sitting in a tent covered in animal skins. There are two children who are each dressed in fur coverings. There are three adults (two men and one woman) who are draped in leather and fur.

Source: The Inorah Family, Library of Congress

Interactive exercise. Assistance may be required.