11A: Week 9 Quiz

Bokor Hill Station was built in the 1920s for French colonial soldiers to relax, but it was _______ when Cambodian independence soldiers took over the area after World War II.

• aggregate

• adversely

• abandoned

• intensify

Over 1,000 years ago, the Native American culture, Hohokam, created a massive system of waterways to bring ______ to the deserts of what is now Phoenix, Arizona.

• precipitation

• irrigation

• photosynthesis

• abandon

Phnom Penh receives an average of 1407 millimeters of _____ per year, entirely as rainfall.

• precipitation

• photosynthesis

• irrigation

• aggregate

Football teams are ranked based on an ______ of scoring.

• intensify

• aggregate

• cultivation

• precipitation

Even people in rich countries will be ________ affected by climate change.

• adversely

• abandon

• intensify

• precipitation

After generations of traditional _____, land can lose much of the essential nutrients needed to grow crops.

• fertilization

• cultivation

• photosynthesis

• abandon

The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which killed over 225,000 people, was the most ______ natural disaster of the 21st century so far.

• impact

• flood

• collide

• catastrophic

In the 21st century, _____ are not caused by a lack of food, but by a lack of access to food by some people due to armed conflicts and natural disasters.

• floods

• famines

• catastrophic

• eruptions

The Train _____ with the school bus, and it became a meme.

• unleashed

• plunged

• collided

• erupted

It's normal for dolphins to leap out of the water and then ____ back into it.

• impact

• flood

• plunge

• perservere