The Shrinking Aral Sea

What is Water Stress?

• Large amounts of pressure cause by water.
• When your coffee tastes more like water than coffee.
• When you feel like your under water due to stress.
• When people don't have enough clean or fresh water.

What is environmental 
degradation?

• Damage or destruction of the natural environment.
• Environmental issues caused by a lack of adequate coffee.
• A downgrade of environmental conditions.
  
• When people talk poorly about the environment.

What is groundwater? 

• Water that is on top of the ground.
• Water that is found deep under ground.
• Water that is mixed with coffee grounds.
• Water that only fancy people can drink.

What is an example of salinization?

• When you put way to much salt on your noodles.
• When fresh water is added to your Ramen noodles.
• When a mixture becomes more soluble.  
• The build up of salt in soil or water.  

How did the changes of the Aral Sea affect the health of the local population?

• People in the Aral Sea region started to get sick.
• The health of people in the region started to improve.
• The Infant Mortality Rate went down.
• People in the region stopped eating Kentucky Fried Chicken.

What was the main reasons for the shrinking of the Aral Sea?

• Capitalism
• Consumerism
• Facism
• Cotton

When the Aral Sea disappeared, it took with it...

• Jobs.
• Creepy Dolls.
• Sadness.
• Its suitcase.

The Aral Sea is now called the... .

• Aral cemetary.
• Aral desert.
• Aral oasis.
• Aral rainforest.

Name one of the two countries that the Aral Sea lies in.

• Beijing
• Sochi
• Kazakhstan
• Derbystan

True or False: Before 1960, the Aral Sea was a freshwater lake.

• True
• False