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