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