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