History GCSE
Environmental Adaptation
What Environmental Adaptation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Environmental Adaptation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Adapting farming methods to the environment, such as dry farming and hardy Russian winter wheat, so crops could thrive despite the low rainfall.
Topics that use Environmental Adaptation
- Option P3: Key topic 3: Later developments in the West, c1876–c1895 - 1 Changes in farming, the cattle industry and settlement (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Agricultural Development
- closure of the 'Indian Frontier'
- Exoduster movement
- Oklahoma Land Rush
- Settlement
- Technological Innovation
- The Great Die-Up
- Open range
Using Environmental Adaptation in the exam
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