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