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WorksheetsSocial Science Section 3 and 4 Pentathlon
Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 38mins
One of the oldest and most persistent scourges, the malaria-causing protozoan, _______________
Influenza
Orthocoronavirinae
Plasmodium Falciparum
Flaviviridae
In the ___________________, cities reengineered their water courses as well as their water usage patterns.
Neolithic Revolution
Green Revolution
LMEST
Sanitary Revolution
Modern treatments such as ___________ were able to cure malarial diseases.
Anopheles
P. Falciparum
Vaccines
Quinine
What type of regions did malarial diseases mostly thrive in?
Semi-Arid Regions
Wet, Moist Regions
Dry Regions
Arid Regions
The P. Falciparum infects humans directly, via the _______________ Mosquito
Zika
Aedes aegypti
Dengue
Anopheles
Which of these were reasons that the disease load increased in settled populations?
Anopheles Mosquitos
Environment
Dense Populations
Domesticated Animals
Which of these diseases do NOT come from domesticated animals?
Influenza
Common Cold
Rotavirus
Yellow Fever
Where did the Sanitary Revolution begin?
United States
England
China
Bolivia
Before the Sanitary Revolution, __ out of 100 children born in London failed to reach their first birthday.
100
20
5
15
When and where was the flush toilet invented?
India, 1100
Netherlands, 1596
England, 1596
Spain, 1492
Who was the person who created a map of cholera cases and linked them back to a single public water pump?
Dr. John Snow
Robert Koch
Karl Witfogel
Johann Jakob Bachofen
When did John Snow make one of humanity's most consequential scientific breakthrough?
1860
1854
1848
1596
What scientist isolated the bacterium that causes cholera?
John Snow
James Watson
Karl Witfogel
Robert Koch
Water designed for domestic consumption is _________________ that is, chemicals with a positive charge are added to the water.
Purified
Reverse Osmosized
Flocculated
Disinfected
How many barrels of oil are required to manufacture plastic bottles annually?
17 Billion
17 Million
150,000
23 Trillion
How many estimated water bottles enter landfills every year?
17 Million
17 Billion
38 Billion
38 Million
Bottled water requires how many times more energy to transport and produce tap water?
17,000
1,000
2,000
100
Modern sewers first appeared _____________ in the ____ century.
Europe; 18th
Asia; 19th
Europe; 19th
Asia; 19th
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 _________.
biosolid; biogas
feces; biosolid
biosolid; sludge
sludge; biosolid
What chemical is used as a disinfectant to sewer water that is being released into streams and rivers?
Sludge
Biogas
Chlorine
Fertilizers
When and where did China's first comprehensive wastewater treatment plant using activated sludge made?
1995; Tianjin
1982; Tianjin
1982; Beijing
1995; Beijing
By 2010, what percent of households were connected to wastewater treatment systems?
77.5%
90.7%
64.8%
21%
What percent of rural households were connected to wastewater plants?
77.5%
64.8%
6%
50%
What year did trhe Chinese government announce the "Water Ten Plan"?
1982
1995
2010
2015
The Water Ten Plan involved installing __________ power plants.
Hydroelectric
Solar
Nuclear
Biogas
Which of these is considered as part of the Global North?
New Zealand
Australia
India
Mexico
Which of these is considered as part of the Global South?
New Zealand
Australia
India
Mexico
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-
Neolthic Revolution
Green Revolution
Sanitary Revolution
Industrial Revolution
In Indi, yields of rice improved from two tons per hectare in the 1960's to more than ___ in the 1990's.
10
8
7
6
__________ rose to become the world's second-largest soybean exporter as a result of cultivating high-yield varieties.
India
Bolivia
China
Brazil
High-yield varieties are also detrimental because they tend to be extremely ________.
Moist
Poisonous
Cheap
Thirsty
Bolivia put the state water agency ____________ up for auction.
IMF
LMEST
SEMAPA
USCIS
Privatization went poorly in what cities of Bolivia?
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Cochabamba
Sucre
La Paz
When did a series of demonstrations erupt in Cochabamba?
Early 1999
Early 2000
Late 1999
Late 2000
What organization did Bolivia have a contract with which was canceled in April 2000?
IMF
SEMAPA
LMEST
Aguas del Tunari
Which of these is a huge, slow-moving subterranean river flowing from South Dakota to western Texas that is one hundred meters underground?
The Ogallala Aquifer
Lake Victoria
Arabian Aquifer
Israeli Aquifer
What percent of the U.S cattle depended on the Ogallala Aquifer during the 1970s?
50%
75%
25%
40%
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.
20
5
10
2
The U.S federal government offered 160 acres to any settler willing to improve the land in the Desert Southwest-
Reclamation Act of 1975
Reclamation Act of 1902
Water Ten Plan
Aguas del Tunari
What is called the most stressed aquifer in the world?
The Ogalalla Aquifer
The Edwards Aquifer
The Floridan Aquifer
The Arabian Aquifer
Which of these are results of eutrophication?
Algal Blooms
Pollution
Increase in nutrients
Increase in microorganisms and bacteria
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-
Flocculation
Graywater
Pollution
Eutrophication
Which of these bodies of water has water pollution leading to eutrophication not struck?
Persian Gulf
Yellow Sea
Red Sea
Arabian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Which of these resulted in the Minamata Disease in children?
Eutrophication caused the water to become polluted, therefore affecting the people who drink it.
Pollution of the air affected the health of children, who are more prone to such types of diseases.
Bioconcentration of mercury in fish rendered them dangerous to eat, which caused brain damage in those who ate it, mercury poisoning.
Saltwater eutrophication caused the water that has gone through reverse osmosis to become dangerous and cause brain damage to many people.
The patch is found between Hawaii and California and is the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic.
The South Pacific Garbage Patch
The Southwest Arabian Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Pack
The Black Sea Garbage Patch
Which of these is not pollution from the transport of oil?
Exxon Valdez
Great Pacific
Black Sea
Deepwater Horizon
Which of these countries is using water conservation as a strategy against water scarcity?
Israel
Jordan
China
India
Water consumption _______ in the first year of Israel's existence.
Tripled
Halved
Quadrupled
Doubled
Conflicts between Jordan, Palestine, and Israel were based on-
Euphrates River
Jerusalem River
Lake Victoria
Jordan River
Israel recognized the Palestinian right to water in the peace treaty between them and Jordan in-
1996
1994
1986
2015
What was the method for desalinating water that was revealed during Kennedy's presidency?
Flocculation
Reverse-Osmosis
Gravel Filtration
Activated Carbon
Where was the first desal plant for civil use opened in?
Toronto, Canada
Los Angeles, California
Cape Coral, Florida
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Which of these are not places and times that desal plant was created?
San Diego 2015
Jedda 1980
Cape Coral 1977
Los Angeles 1986
The energy of the Carlsbad plant comes from-
Aguas Del Tunari
Encima Power Plant
Desal Plants
Nuclear Power Plant
What is the leftove3r substance that is created after RO?
Potable Water
Graywater
Brine
Chime
A program to demonstrate the terraforming potential of nuclear weapons-
Water Transfer Project
Water Ten Plan
Operation Plowshare
Project Chariot
Aimed to create an artificial harbor at Cape Thompson on the northwest coast of Alaska.
Operation Plowshare
Project Chariot
Water Ten Plan
Siberian Reroute
Although Project Chariot was ultimately never carried out, __ nuclear warheads were detonated across the U.S West.
41
30
31
25
Project from China that would move 44.8 Billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze River through three canals.
Sout-North Water Transfer Project
Water Ten Plan
Project Chariot
Operation Plowshare
The cost of constructing the canals of the South-North Transfer project has already exceeded the Grand Canal by a factor of-
3
1.5
2
4'
When was the Hoover Dam completed?
1966
1988
1986
1936
Requires Mexico to cut usage by 3 percent and the United States to ensure that 247 cubic meters flow across the border.
Operation Plowshare
Project Chariot
Water Ten Plan
Minute 323
What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in China?
Nu
Thanlwin
Salween
What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in Myanmar?
Nu
Thanlwin
Salween
What is the name for the river that originates in Tibet in Thailand?
Nu
Thanlwin
Salween
What government announced plans to build dams over the Nu/Thanlwin/Salween river?
China
Thailand
Myanmar
Vietnam
Which country does Lake Victoria not border?
Uganda
Tanzania
Uganda
Libya
Second largest freshwater lake in the world-
Lake Heron
Lake Superior
Lake Victoria
Lake Salween
Which of these two were dams built on Lake Victoria?
Carlsbad Dam
Nubian Dam
Nalubaale Dam
Kiira Dam
The Nubian Aquifer is not under which of these countries?
Libya
Sudan
Chad
Egypt
Ethiopia
The Great Manmade River was built on which water resource?
Lake Victoria
Nu/Thanlwin/
Salween River
Carlsbad Plant
White Nile River
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer
When was the Guarani Aquifer Agreement signed?
1980
2010
2015
1990
The world's second largest aquifer.
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer
Guarani Aquifer
Lake Victoria
Ogallala Aquifer
