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