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Human Environment Interaction
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Subject
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. African nation that has oil resources but has mismanaged them
Push factor
Nigeria
Polder
Aswan High Dam
2. The Aswan High Dam stopped organic matter in water to deposit _______ into the lands of Egypt which served like free fertilizer.
1849
Pull Factor
Oil Shale
Silt
3. Region that has had a large role in the creation of the Ogallala Aquifer
Sandhills
Scandinavia
2000 mile long fence
Slash and burn
4. City in Italy that sit on water and uses canals for roads
Egypt
Sahel
Bikini Atoll
Venice
5. The Australian government introduced this into blood of rabbits to control their populations.
Nuclear power plant
Infectious disease
Urbanization
Slash and burn
6. Number of people killed in attacks on Nigerian oil lines
Nigeria
2000
Rabbits
Slash and burn
7. The name of the pipeline that was proposed to go through the US
Keystone
Slash and burn
Sandhills
2000
8. When a person is pulled into a region because that region has great positives
Rabbits
Pull Factor
Polder
50
9. Region where terracing is used in South America
Venice
Thomas Austin
Slash and burn
Andes Mountains
10. Chernobyl is located in the former ____________.
2000
Holland
Currents
Soviet Union
11. Number of Nigerian oil spills that have not been cleaned up
Aswan High Dam
Nuclear
4000
Andes Mountains
12. By 1900 - how many rabbits were there in 1900?
Venice
1 billion
Sahel
2000 mile long fence
13. This is done to reduce soil erosion and increase arable land
1 billion
Polder
Terracing
Egypt
14. In 18 months 2 rabbits can create how many baby rabbits?
Sandhills
180
North Dakota
Slash and burn
15. A man made elevated region for people who live in low lying areas to go in case of flood
Oil Shale
Terpen
Egypt
Keystone
16. Nation where land reclamation has allowed the nation to grow by 40%
Terpen
4000
North Dakota
Holland
17. The main reason for the Pacific Garbage patch is Ocean ________.
Currents
Slash and burn
Rabbits
Silt
18. Process of a region turning into a desert due to poor farming process
Push factor
Egypt
Lake Nassar
Desertification
19. A negative of this is that is uses up good agricultural land and widens the gap between rich and poor
Venice
Lake Nassar
Tourism
Oil Shale
20. Australia built one of these to try and stop spread of rabbits.
Aswan High Dam
Rabbits
2000 mile long fence
2000
21. The Aswan High Dam increased the arable land of Egypt by ______ percent.
Currents
50
Bikini Atoll
Holland
22. An energy that cannot be renewed and made from decomposed plant matter
Keystone
North Dakota
Fossil fuels
Soviet Union
23. What year were the rabbits brought to Australia?
Pacific
Lake Nassar
Terracing
1849
24. When a person is forced out of a region because of bad circumstances
Soviet Union
Andes Mountains
Push factor
50
25. _________ is dealt with by incineration - buried or recycled
Infectious disease
2000
Garbage
Currents
26. What destroyed pastures - stripped land and brought on extinction of native animals?
Sandhills
North Dakota
Rabbits
Holland
27. Ecosystem of Western Nebraska
Tourism
Sandhills
300
Silt
28. Idea of bringing down trees and setting them ablaze to deposit their nutrients in farm ground in the amazon.
Tourism
Slash and burn
Tourism
Sandhills
29. Region in Africa that is experiencing desertification
Nuclear power plant
Evaporation
Sahel
Polder
30. A man made dam
Dike
Soviet Union
Slash and burn
180
31. Animal that Australia used to try and control rabbit populations.
Slash and burn
Silt
1 billion
Fox
32. Lake Nassar is about _____ miles long.
Sandhills
300
Dike
Push factor
33. Lake Nassar has buried many wonders of what ancient empire?
2000 mile long fence
Scandinavia
Egypt
Pull Factor
34. Group of islands used for nuclear testing in Oceans by the USA
Bikini Atoll
Holland
Venice
4000
35. Land that is suitable for farming
Slash and burn
Nuclear
Arable
Sandhills
36. When people move from the rural areas to the city
Urbanization
Desertification
Sandhills
Egypt
37. Once a region has used ________________ it is good for a while but then the land becomes infertile
Arable
Fox
Nigeria
Slash and burn
38. Chernobyl was a ____________ that blew up.
Egypt
Nuclear power plant
2000
2000 mile long fence
39. This place was chosen for nuclear testing because it wasn't near shipping lanes.
Sandhills
Silt
Bikini Atoll
Slash and burn
40. Animal plaguing Australia
Rabbits
4000
Fox
Nuclear power plant
41. Millions of water in Lake Nassar are lost to __________.
Evaporation
Tourism
180
Urbanization
42. ______ is harder to mine - harder to process and is harmful to the environment
2000 mile long fence
Pacific
Sandhills
Oil Shale
43. Ocean where there is a huge garbage patch
Oil Shale
Rabbits
Infectious disease
Pacific
44. Oil shale is located in many regions - but the one we discussed was in the state of_______.
Nigeria
Oil Shale
Aswan High Dam
North Dakota
45. Land that has been reclaimed from the sea
Rabbits
2000
Andes Mountains
Polder
46. Region that is subjected to acid rain in Europe
Bikini Atoll
5
Rabbits
Scandinavia
47. A positive of this is that it brings in money and jobs to a region
Soviet Union
Tourism
Holland
Rabbits
48. The average person created ___ lbs of waste per day
Infectious disease
300
Bikini Atoll
5
49. _____ Power is an exciting prospect because its renewable and clean - but its waste is radioactive.
Urbanization
Push factor
Nuclear
Bikini Atoll
50. Person who released the Australian rabbits.
Sandhills
Andes Mountains
2000
Thomas Austin