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Social Science Section 3 and 4 Pentathlon

Total questions: 73

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of the oldest and most persistent scourges, the malaria-causing protozoan, _______________

a)

Influenza

b)

Orthocoronavirinae

c)

Plasmodium Falciparum

d)

Flaviviridae

2.

In the ___________________, cities reengineered their water courses as well as their water usage patterns.

a)

Neolithic Revolution

b)

Green Revolution

c)

LMEST

d)

Sanitary Revolution

3.

Modern treatments such as ___________ were able to cure malarial diseases.

a)

Anopheles

b)

P. Falciparum

c)

Vaccines

d)

Quinine

4.

What type of regions did malarial diseases mostly thrive in?

a)

Semi-Arid Regions

b)

Wet, Moist Regions

c)

Dry Regions

d)

Arid Regions

5.

The P. Falciparum infects humans directly, via the _______________ Mosquito

a)

Zika

b)

Aedes aegypti

c)

Dengue

d)

Anopheles

6.

Which of these were reasons that the disease load increased in settled populations?

a)

Anopheles Mosquitos

b)

Environment

c)

Dense Populations

d)

Domesticated Animals

7.

Which of these diseases do NOT come from domesticated animals?

a)

Influenza

b)

Common Cold

c)

Rotavirus

d)

Yellow Fever

8.

Where did the Sanitary Revolution begin?

a)

United States

b)

England

c)

China

d)

Bolivia

9.

Before the Sanitary Revolution, __ out of 100 children born in London failed to reach their first birthday.

a)

100

b)

20

c)

5

d)

15

10.

When and where was the flush toilet invented?

a)

India, 1100

b)

Netherlands, 1596

c)

England, 1596

d)

Spain, 1492

11.

Who was the person who created a map of cholera cases and linked them back to a single public water pump?

a)

Dr. John Snow

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Karl Witfogel

d)

Johann Jakob Bachofen

12.

When did John Snow make one of humanity's most consequential scientific breakthrough?

a)

1860

b)

1854

c)

1848

d)

1596

13.

What scientist isolated the bacterium that causes cholera?

a)

John Snow

b)

James Watson

c)

Karl Witfogel

d)

Robert Koch

14.

Water designed for domestic consumption is _________________ that is, chemicals with a positive charge are added to the water.

a)

Purified

b)

Reverse Osmosized

c)

Flocculated

d)

Disinfected

15.

How many barrels of oil are required to manufacture plastic bottles annually?

a)

17 Billion

b)

17 Million

c)

150,000

d)

23 Trillion

16.

How many estimated water bottles enter landfills every year?

a)

17 Million

b)

17 Billion

c)

38 Billion

d)

38 Million

17.

Bottled water requires how many times more energy to transport and produce tap water?

a)

17,000

b)

1,000

c)

2,000

d)

100

18.

Modern sewers first appeared _____________ in the ____ century.

a)

Europe; 18th

b)

Asia; 19th

c)

Europe; 19th

d)

Asia; 19th

19.

Sewer water is piped to a central location where it is first allowed to separate into liquid and solid components. The solid component once called ______ and is now referred to as raw primary _________.

a)

biosolid; biogas

b)

feces; biosolid

c)

biosolid; sludge

d)

sludge; biosolid

20.

What chemical is used as a disinfectant to sewer water that is being released into streams and rivers?

a)

Sludge

b)

Biogas

c)

Chlorine

d)

Fertilizers

21.

When and where did China's first comprehensive wastewater treatment plant using activated sludge made?

a)

1995; Tianjin

b)

1982; Tianjin

c)

1982; Beijing

d)

1995; Beijing

22.

By 2010, what percent of households were connected to wastewater treatment systems?

a)

77.5%

b)

90.7%

c)

64.8%

d)

21%

23.

What percent of rural households were connected to wastewater plants?

a)

77.5%

b)

64.8%

c)

6%

d)

50%

24.

What year did trhe Chinese government announce the "Water Ten Plan"?

a)

1982

b)

1995

c)

2010

d)

2015

25.

The Water Ten Plan involved installing __________ power plants.

a)

Hydroelectric

b)

Solar

c)

Nuclear

d)

Biogas

26.

Which of these is considered as part of the Global North?

a)

New Zealand

b)

Australia

c)

India

d)

Mexico

27.

Which of these is considered as part of the Global South?

a)

New Zealand

b)

Australia

c)

India

d)

Mexico

28.

In the 1960's, agricultural experts began urging governments in the Global South to address their persistent food shortages by investing in high-yielding seeds-

a)

Neolthic Revolution

b)

Green Revolution

c)

Sanitary Revolution

d)

Industrial Revolution

29.

In Indi, yields of rice improved from two tons per hectare in the 1960's to more than ___ in the 1990's.

a)

10

b)

8

c)

7

d)

6

30.

__________ rose to become the world's second-largest soybean exporter as a result of cultivating high-yield varieties.

a)

India

b)

Bolivia

c)

China

d)

Brazil

31.

High-yield varieties are also detrimental because they tend to be extremely ________.

a)

Moist

b)

Poisonous

c)

Cheap

d)

Thirsty

32.

Bolivia put the state water agency ____________ up for auction.

a)

IMF

b)

LMEST

c)

SEMAPA

d)

USCIS

33.

Privatization went poorly in what cities of Bolivia?

a)

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

b)

Cochabamba

c)

Sucre

d)

La Paz

34.

When did a series of demonstrations erupt in Cochabamba?

a)

Early 1999

b)

Early 2000

c)

Late 1999

d)

Late 2000

35.

What organization did Bolivia have a contract with which was canceled in April 2000?

a)

IMF

b)

SEMAPA

c)

LMEST

d)

Aguas del Tunari

36.

Which of these is a huge, slow-moving subterranean river flowing from South Dakota to western Texas that is one hundred meters underground?

a)

The Ogallala Aquifer

b)

Lake Victoria

c)

Arabian Aquifer

d)

Israeli Aquifer

37.

What percent of the U.S cattle depended on the Ogallala Aquifer during the 1970s?

a)

50%

b)

75%

c)

25%

d)

40%

38.

The problem with the Ogalalla Aquifer was that it was being drained out very fast, it was being drained out _____ times as much as precipitation could recharge it.

a)

20

b)

5

c)

10

d)

2

39.

The U.S federal government offered 160 acres to any settler willing to improve the land in the Desert Southwest-

a)

Reclamation Act of 1975

b)

Reclamation Act of 1902

c)

Water Ten Plan

d)

Aguas del Tunari

40.

What is called the most stressed aquifer in the world?

a)

The Ogalalla Aquifer

b)

The Edwards Aquifer

c)

The Floridan Aquifer

d)

The Arabian Aquifer

41.

Which of these are results of eutrophication?

a)

Algal Blooms

b)

Pollution

c)

Increase in nutrients

d)

Increase in microorganisms and bacteria

42.

The process by which excess nutrients accumulate in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen-

a)

Flocculation

b)

Graywater

c)

Pollution

d)

Eutrophication

43.

Which of these bodies of water has water pollution leading to eutrophication not struck?

a)

Persian Gulf

b)

Yellow Sea

c)

Red Sea

d)

Arabian Sea

e)

Mediterranean Sea

44.

Which of these resulted in the Minamata Disease in children?

a)

Eutrophication caused the water to become polluted, therefore affecting the people who drink it.

b)

Pollution of the air affected the health of children, who are more prone to such types of diseases.

c)

Bioconcentration of mercury in fish rendered them dangerous to eat, which caused brain damage in those who ate it, mercury poisoning.

d)

Saltwater eutrophication caused the water that has gone through reverse osmosis to become dangerous and cause brain damage to many people.

45.

The patch is found between Hawaii and California and is the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic.

a)

The South Pacific Garbage Patch

b)

The Southwest Arabian Patch

c)

The Great Pacific Garbage Pack

d)

The Black Sea Garbage Patch

46.

Which of these is not pollution from the transport of oil?

a)

Exxon Valdez

b)

Great Pacific

c)

Black Sea

d)

Deepwater Horizon

47.

Which of these countries is using water conservation as a strategy against water scarcity?

a)

Israel

b)

Jordan

c)

China

d)

India

48.

Water consumption _______ in the first year of Israel's existence.

a)

Tripled

b)

Halved

c)

Quadrupled

d)

Doubled

49.

Conflicts between Jordan, Palestine, and Israel were based on-

a)

Euphrates River

b)

Jerusalem River

c)

Lake Victoria

d)

Jordan River

50.

Israel recognized the Palestinian right to water in the peace treaty between them and Jordan in-

a)

1996

b)

1994

c)

1986

d)

2015

51.

What was the method for desalinating water that was revealed during Kennedy's presidency?

a)

Flocculation

b)

Reverse-Osmosis

c)

Gravel Filtration

d)

Activated Carbon

52.

Where was the first desal plant for civil use opened in?

a)

Toronto, Canada

b)

Los Angeles, California

c)

Cape Coral, Florida

d)

Colorado Springs, Colorado

53.

Which of these are not places and times that desal plant was created?

a)

San Diego 2015

b)

Jedda 1980

c)

Cape Coral 1977

d)

Los Angeles 1986

54.

The energy of the Carlsbad plant comes from-

a)

Aguas Del Tunari

b)

Encima Power Plant

c)

Desal Plants

d)

Nuclear Power Plant

55.

What is the leftove3r substance that is created after RO?

a)

Potable Water

b)

Graywater

c)

Brine

d)

Chime

56.

A program to demonstrate the terraforming potential of nuclear weapons-

a)

Water Transfer Project

b)

Water Ten Plan

c)

Operation Plowshare

d)

Project Chariot

57.

Aimed to create an artificial harbor at Cape Thompson on the northwest coast of Alaska.

a)

Operation Plowshare

b)

Project Chariot

c)

Water Ten Plan

d)

Siberian Reroute

58.

Although Project Chariot was ultimately never carried out, __ nuclear warheads were detonated across the U.S West.

a)

41

b)

30

c)

31

d)

25

59.

Project from China that would move 44.8 Billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze River through three canals.

a)

Sout-North Water Transfer Project

b)

Water Ten Plan

c)

Project Chariot

d)

Operation Plowshare

60.

The cost of constructing the canals of the South-North Transfer project has already exceeded the Grand Canal by a factor of-

a)

3

b)

1.5

c)

2

d)

4'

61.

When was the Hoover Dam completed?

a)

1966

b)

1988

c)

1986

d)

1936

62.

Requires Mexico to cut usage by 3 percent and the United States to ensure that 247 cubic meters flow across the border.

a)

Operation Plowshare

b)

Project Chariot

c)

Water Ten Plan

d)

Minute 323

63.

What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in China?

a)

Nu

b)

Thanlwin

c)

Salween

64.

What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in Myanmar?

a)

Nu

b)

Thanlwin

c)

Salween

65.

What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in Thailand?

a)

Nu

b)

Thanlwin

c)

Salween

66.

What government announced plans to build dams over the Nu/Thanlwin/Salween river?

a)

China

b)

Thailand

c)

Myanmar

d)

Vietnam

67.

Which country does Lake Victoria not border?

a)

Uganda

b)

Tanzania

c)

Uganda

d)

Libya

68.

Second largest freshwater lake in the world-

a)

Lake Heron

b)

Lake Superior

c)

Lake Victoria

d)

Lake Salween

69.

Which of these two were dams built on Lake Victoria?

a)

Carlsbad Dam

b)

Nubian Dam

c)

Nalubaale Dam

d)

Kiira Dam

70.

The Nubian Aquifer is not under which of these countries?

a)

Libya

b)

Sudan

c)

Chad

d)

Egypt

e)

Ethiopia

71.

The Great Manmade River was built on which water resource?

a)

Lake Victoria

b)

Nu/Thanlwin/

Salween River

c)

Carlsbad Plant

d)

White Nile River

e)

Nubian Sandstone Aquifer

72.

When was the Guarani Aquifer Agreement signed?

a)

1980

b)

2010

c)

2015

d)

1990

73.

The world's second largest aquifer.

a)

Nubian Sandstone Aquifer

b)

Guarani Aquifer

c)

Lake Victoria

d)

Ogallala Aquifer