Southern and Eastern Asia Environmental Issues Review

Some of the highest rates of air pollution in the world due to automobile emissions and the development of the industry are located in which country?

• India

• China

• Vietnam

• Japan

The use of coal-burning power plants for energy in China is a result of?

• Flooding

• Using too much coal

• the decrease in the number of factories

• air pollution

People scatter the cremated remains into the Ganges River as a practice they do, but How is this creating a problem for the Ganges River?

• Factories can not use the water once ashes have been spread out.

• People can not go to the river when the remains are being spread

• The banks of the Ganges catches fire easily

• The dead bodies of humans and animals, as well as the ashes, are causing river pollution problems.

Flooding along this Yellow River has caused great suffering. What is another name that the Yellow River is called?

• China's Sorrow

• The Flooding River

• Flooding Sorrow

• Mekong River

Human and animals drowning, destruction of homes and businesses, crops lost, and mudslides are issues people face in?

• Flooding

• Dry weather

• Air pollution

• water pollution

What issues have contributed to rivers flooding in China?

• rains during monsoon seasons

• farmers draining wetlands that previously acted as sponges

• loggers cutting down too many trees that previously contained the rivers' water

• All the Above.

Chinese villagers do not have safe drinking water because of the pollution from chemicals and waste in the river located at Letter B. What is located at letter B?

• Ganges River

• Yellow River

• Indus River

• Yangtze River

Letter A is highly polluted with dangerous bacteria and cities along its banks have the highest rates of water-borne diseases in India. What is located at letter A?

• Yellow River

• Indus River

• Mekong River

• Ganges River

The rapid growth of algae in the Yangtze River has caused_______.

• oxygen levels in the water to go down and cause fish to die

• dolphins and porpoises to rely on the algae for food

• the river to no longer be used for shipping and transportation

• provided a good source of fertilizer for those living along the river.

Water is unsafe to drink, and waterborne diseases are spreading is the result of

• water pollution in the Ganges and Yellow River

• water pollution in the Yangtze and Ganges River

• flooding in the Yellow River and Ganges River

• water pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow Rver