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