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