Unit 6 Lesson 5 People and their Environment World Geography(ae)

A government policy as it is influenced by physical, human, and economic geography

• Geopolitics

• Geoscience

_ is the most widely used energy source in the modern world.

• Oil

• water

Oil is a fossil fuel, created over millions of years, and thus is a _ resource.

• renewable

• nonrenewable

The peninsula's vast petroleum reserves also make it a focus of_ interest.

• international

• state

Oil pollution releases hundreds of _into the air.

• chemical gases

• water vapor

Pollutants linger in the air until rain carries them to the ground where they _ the groundwater and the soil.

• contaminate

• help

In a successful attempt to sabotage Kuwait's oil industry, Iraqi forces set fire to _ and released 250 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf.

• oil wells

• homes

Hundreds of miles of coastland was soaked with _.

• gas

• oil

The fishing industry is a vital part of the Persian Gulf economy, was dealt a serious blow.

• true

• false

The extraction and processing of petroleum has consequences...Rainwater has decreased over much of Saudi Arabia.

• true

• false