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