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