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WorksheetsCold Environments
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the word tundra mean?
a)
Cold wilderness
b)
Finnish for treeless land
c)
flat land
d)
plantless
2.
Why are the pipelines in Alaska not built in straight lines?
a)
They follow the border
b)
To stop it from sinking into the permafrost
c)
To allow polar bears to migrate
d)
To stop them from cracking during an earthquake
3.
Why are houses and roads sinking in Alaska?
a)
too much oil has been extracted
b)
Global warming is melting the permafrost
c)
too much gold has been extracted
d)
they are too heavy for the frozen soil.
4.
What is the Law of the Sea?
a)
That a countries rules doesn't count at sea.
b)
A country is in charge of the 200 nautical miles off your coast
5.
If the number of humpback whales increased what would happen to phytoplankton?
a)
increase
b)
decrease
6.
Why do the indigenous people eat whale meat?
a)
They like the taste
b)
Whales are easy to catch
c)
The indigenous people like kayaking
d)
Fruit and vegetables can't grow so they need to get the minerals and energy from whales
7.
What is Exxon Valdez?
a)
A place in in Alaska
b)
An oil platform
c)
A tanker which crashed causing an oil spill
d)
A gold mine
8.
What is a multiplier effect?
a)
the 'snowballing' of economic activity where jobs are created giving people more money
b)
the increase in people living in Alaska
c)
the increase of people leaving Alaska
9.
The Arctic Treaty says people can
a)
extract of minerals from the ground
b)
have mass tourism
c)
have a small amount of controlled tourism
d)
test nuclear weapons
10.
fishing quotas are
a)
the number of fish in the sea
b)
how much fish you can catch
c)
the government limits the amount of fish that can be caught.
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