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