WBHS Carr - Human/Environment Interaction

reclaimed lands in the Netherlands that are built up lands below sea level 

• polders
• dikes
• Rhine

2. What is the problem in the Aral Sea?

• It’s full of oil.

• It’s getting bigger

• It’s getting smaller.

What was Egypt's MAIN reason for building the Aswan High Dam?

• To encourage water sports on the river

• To flood the river's barriers to shipping

• To stop sewage from slowing into the river

• To develop the river's hydroelectric potential

Why was the Aswan High Dam Built?

• To tame the river so the people always had water.
• To flood the land.
• To save the mountains.

A series of initiatives between 1940's and late 1960's that increased agricultural production worldwide, especially in developing nations.

• Green Revolution

• Four Asian Tigers

• Monsoons

• Monopoly

Make or form sloping land into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps.

• Sanitary Landfills

• Rain

• Terracing

• Monsoons

The process by which land becomes increasingly dry to a point of being useless.

• desertification
• marginal land
• drought
• pastoral nomads

Are deforestation and desertification related?

• Desertification and deforestation are the same thing.
• Deforestation contributes to desertification
• They are not related to one another.
• Desertification leads to deforestation.

Desertification is: 

• a naturally occurring event due to continual droughts
• both natural and a man made activity caused by lack of precipitation and continual overuse of the land and its resources 
• is man made  but the impact on Earth is very limited
• is permanent and nothing can be done to prevent the causes or effects

What environmental problem does Germany face?

• acid rain
• air pollution
• nuclear disaster
• deforesteration