CONNECTION WATER

Select three factors relating to water that influence where people choose to settle.

• Trade

• House Prices

• Farming

• Environmantal

Is the following statement true? Does the availability of water determine how people in different places live?

• True

• False

Drinking water from the Tisza river was polluted in which countries: Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria.

• Romania

• Hungary

• Serbia

• Bulgaria

• Russia

In 2000, a storage pond used by a gold mine in Romania burst its banks. How many contaimanated water spilled into the Tisza River?

• 1000

• 500,000

• 100,000

• 20,000

What was the company responisble for the Tisza river being posioned producing?

• Oil

• Coal

• Diamonds

• Gold

In 2011, the people of Thailand experienced some of the worst flooding they had seen for decades. What were some of the reasons for this flooding?

• annual monsoon brings heavy rain

• rivers burst their banks in the mountainous north

• dam walls broke

• no flood protection

What was the damage and human toll of the Thailand flood?

• no fatalities but US$100 million damage bill

• 50 people dead and a damage bill of more than

  US$10 million

• 50,000 people dead and a damage bill of more than

  US$5 billion.

• 500 people dead and a damage bill of more than

  US$45 billion.

Decide whether each of the following facts makes flooding in Bangkok more likely or more dangerous.

a Between June and October Thailand experiences its wet season with heavy monsoon rains.

b Between 1985 and 2010 Thailand’s population increased by more than 10 million people.

c The land on which Bangkok is built is sinking by 30 millimetres a year.

d more flood prevention measures

• a

• b

• c

• d

It takes -------- litres of water to produce a loaf of bread.

It takes ____________ litres of water to produce a kg of butter.