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WorksheetsUnit 3: Environmental Issues Lesson 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 25mins
Define Water Conservation
Water conservation encompasses the policies, strategies and activities to manage fresh water as a sustainable resource to protect the water environment and to meet current and future human demand.
Water conservation encompasses the policies that help the land.
Water conservation encompasses the policies that help people buy Christmas gifts
Water conservation encompasses the strategies that help you buy shoes.
What is irrigation?
Irrigation is the drying of land to make it ready for agriculture.
Irrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture.
Irrigation is the living on the land.
Irrigation is the clearing of the land.
How does a dam help with the flow of water?
A barrier built to keep a lot of water flowing.
Dams are built with rocks.
A beaver builds a dam.
A barrier built to block the flow of water is called a dam.
What are water rights?
A group of rights designed to stop the use and enjoyment of water that travels in streams, lakes, ponds, and rivers that gathers on the earth or collects underground.
A group of rights designed to give a discount on the water bill.
A group of rights designed to protect the use and enjoyment of water that travels in streams, lakes, ponds, and rivers that gathers on the earth or collects underground.
A group of rights designed to sell water for the use and enjoyment people.
A process for removing the salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for drinking and farming.
desalination
seawater
minerals
consumption
When populations move from rural to urban area, enabling cities and towns to grow.
urbanization
country living
suburban
downtown
The presence of more people or things in a space than is comfortable, safe, or permissible.
oversensitive
overconfident
overcrowding
over encouraging
A situation in which there is less of something
Than people want or need
food shortage
food ways
food land
food town
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
dessert
deserter
desertion
desertification
What is Pollution?
Helping plants grow.
The contamination of air, water, or soil by substances that are harmful to living things.
Feeding animals in the water and air.
cleaning the air and water.
Pollution endangers the ______ supply in particular.
air
water
soil
river
What are some of the environmental issues in the Middle East?
Pollution
Water Rights
Food shortages
Agricultural Practices
Iraqi soldiers dumped over ________ hundred gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf.
four
three
five
nine
Many wars have been fought over _____ in Southwest Asia.
land
oil
water
dams
Water rights often cause ______ _______.
political disputes
friendships
land fights
war
