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Built Environment Land Conversion Hut Photovoltaic System Desert Beaver Dams Mound-Building Termites

The document discusses the differences between natural environments and built environments. It explains that built environments like cities and farmland have been fundamentally transformed by humans from their natural state. Even small human modifications can make an environment artificial. However, naturalness exists on a continuum, and aspects of environments can have varying degrees of naturalness.

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Built Environment Land Conversion Hut Photovoltaic System Desert Beaver Dams Mound-Building Termites

The document discusses the differences between natural environments and built environments. It explains that built environments like cities and farmland have been fundamentally transformed by humans from their natural state. Even small human modifications can make an environment artificial. However, naturalness exists on a continuum, and aspects of environments can have varying degrees of naturalness.

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In contrast to the natural environment is the 

built environment. In such areas where humans have


fundamentally transformed landscapes such as urban settings and agricultural land conversion, the
natural environment is greatly changed into a simplified human environment. Even acts which seem
less extreme, such as building a mud hut or a photovoltaic system in the desert, the modified
environment becomes an artificial one. Though many animals build things to provide a better
environment for themselves, they are not human, hence beaver dams, and the works of mound-
building termites, are thought of as natural.
People seldom find absolutely natural environments on Earth, and naturalness usually varies in a
continuum, from 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other. More precisely, we can
consider the different aspects or components of an environment, and see that their degree of
naturalness is not uniform.[2] If, for instance, in an agricultural field, the mineralogic composition and
the structure of its soil are similar to those of an undisturbed forest soil, but the structure is quite
different.
Natural environment is often used as a synonym for habitat, for instance, when we say that the natu

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