Humans and the environment
What humans and the environment means
This skill helps you understand how people affect the land, water and air around them. You learn simple ways to keep your community healthy and to protect plants, animals and natural places.
What you will practise
- Choose actions that keep homes and communities clean.
- Identify causes and effects of pollution in water and on land.
- Recognise harmful acts such as deforestation and littering.
- Pick better habits for protecting nature every day.
Before you start
You should already know common local waste items and simple ways people keep places tidy. It also helps to know basic names for rivers, trees and other parts of the environment.
Not confident yet? Work through States of matter first.
Worked example
One question from this skill's own question bank, shown with its full working.
Which of these helps keep our community clean?
- throwing rubbish in gutters
- burning plastics everywhere
- putting waste in dustbins
- spitting on the floor
Working: Proper waste disposal in bins prevents disease and pollution.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Choosing dumping waste near water instead of putting it in dustbins.
- Confusing pollution with clean-up actions that protect the environment.
- Thinking every tree cutting is harmless, instead of noticing deforestation.
- Forgetting that rubbish in rivers can harm people, fish and other living things.
Curriculum and exam alignment
In Upper Primary, this topic usually appears in science work on the environment, clean living and care for natural resources. It supports class tests, school-based assessment and the groundwork for the BECE by building basic environmental understanding.
Curriculum notes are a general guide to where this work normally sits. Always check the syllabus your school or examination body is currently using.
Related skills
Other Matter & Our Environment skills in Science, at the same point in the course.
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Exams that assess humans and the environment
Upper Primary work on this skill feeds directly into these exam papers. Each page lists the Science topics that appear on it.
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Practise humans and the environment
6 questions with a worked answer after every attempt, and a SmartScore that tracks how close you are to mastery.