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WorksheetsA Monumental Collapse?-Reading Presentation-Team #3-401
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
Where does the article of "A Monumental Collapse?" takes place?
Hawaii
Chiles's Center
United Kingdom
Easter Island
What did the "pull quote of the online article" mentioned in the presentation state?
"The parallels between Easter Island and the whole modern world are chillingly obvious"
"The theory of self-destruction might conceal an even less palatable truth"
"The theory of self-destruction might conceal an even less palatable falsity"
"Easter's isolation makes it the clearest example of a society that destroyed itself by overexploiting its own resources"
What caused the collapse of Easter's society?
Population
Scientists
Monument Construction
Environmental Impact
Is the article "A monumental collapse?" from a scientific magazine?
I didn't put attention
No
Yes
When did the article was published?
July 29th, 2006
July 26th, 2009
July 26th, 2006
July 29th, 2009
What important people of 2006 was mentioned in the presentation?
Leaders and revolutionaries
Artists and entertainers
Builders and titans
Scientists and thinkers
Most of the evidence for starvation and cannibalism comes from oral histories, which are “extremely contradictory and historically unreliable”.
True
False
For hundreds of years the inhabitants of Easter Island competed to build ever more impressive...
(a)
The massive deforestation loosened the __________, which blew into the ocean, depleting the ground of nutrients and causing food shortages.
Soil
Topsoil
Trees
Population
Do scientists use this as a story for us as society to be aware of what could happen in some environmental situations in the future?
Absolutely yes!!!!!
I don't think so :(
