Southwest Asia_Environmental Issues

Multiple Choice

________ water sources have greatly reduced the amount of clean water available for drinking.

• Sewage

• Contaminated

• Clean

• Sand

Multiple Choice

Southwest Asia's biggest pollution problems come from ______, agricultural runoff, and industrial waste.

• human computers

• human people

• human sewage

• human water

Multiple Choice

Less than _% if the world's fresh water is available to the area's inhabitants (5% of the world's population).

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Some of the region's water that's used for irrigation and drinking is created through a process called _____.

• agriculture

• water cycle

• desalination

• irrigation

Multiple Choice

_____ ______ has built a number of desalination plants that provide most of the country's drinking water.

• Mount Everest

• Mount Olive

• New England

• Saudi Arabia

Multiple Choice

______ is a precious resource and there is simply not enough available to meet the region's needs.

• Air

• Diamonds

• Water

• Soil

Fill in the Blank

Some countries feel that others do not use proper methods of _____, which can lead to a shortage of water for other countries.

Fill in the Blank

The rivers both begin in _____ and then flow down through Syria and then through Iraq.

Multiple Choice

Turkey has a "____ advantage over other Middle Eastern countries because the Tigris and Euphrates rivers form here.

• water

• soil

• air

• oil

Fill in the Blank

Turkey has developed the Southeastern Anatolia Project, which consists of ___ dams and 19 hydroelectric plants along the Euphrates River.

Multiple Choice

Unfortunately, the country has to deal with the increasing problem of _____ pollution.

• thermal

• plastic

• air

• water

Fill in the Blank

Syria already suffers from food shortages, and irrigating new land is extremely difficult with the diminished water supply from the ___.

Multiple Choice

In order to keep some water in the country, ___ has also built dams along the river.

• Istanbul

• Turkey

• Israel

• Syria

Multiple Choice

____ and rice production has decreased dramatically, and many farmers are now without jobs.

• Rice

• Wheat

• Flour

• Corn

Multiple Choice

Also, three decades of warfare have caused damage to Iraq's ____ treatment plants.

• water

• oil

• air

• soil

Multiple Choice

The Jordan River provides Israel with _% of it's water and Jordan with 75%.

• 35

• 20

• 60

• 75

Multiple Choice

Citizens can only get water _ days a week.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Israel has built ____ that redirect the river's water away from Jordan and into its own hands.

• pipelines

• breaklines

• tanlines

• landlines