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2021 usap

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of bond holds the atoms in the water together?

a)

Ionic Bonds

b)

Polar Covalent Bond

c)

Hydrogen Bond

d)

Metallic Bond

2.

How do the strong bonds of water affect its characteristics?

a)

Requires more energy than similar molecules to change state

b)

The only compound whose 3 physical states are located in close proximity

c)

Allows for evaporative cooling to occur

d)

The balance easily changes as small shifts in temperature occurs

e)

A tool inside cells to transport other polarized substances and to change the cell's shape

3.

What type of gas is water vapor, and what impact does it have on global climate?

a)

Greenhouse gas; controls temperature and traps heat

b)

Greenhouse gas; powers engines and starting a revolution

c)

Synthetic gas; controls temperature and traps hear

d)

Synthetic gas; powers engines and starting a revolution

4.

What shaped crystalline structure does liquid water have?

a)

Hexagonal

b)

Triangular

c)

Pentagonal

d)

Tetrahedral

5.

What property of water enables it to dissolve many different subtances?

a)

the high degree of polarity

b)

liquid

c)

can cover substances

6.

What was the main reason that crops failed in Ancient Mesopotamia?

a)

Hot weather

b)

High degree of salinity

c)

High degree of salinity caused by irrigation

7.

What caused the Indus River Valley civilization to collapse?

a)

Hot weather

b)

Deforestation

c)

Irrigation and deforestation

d)

Irrigation

8.

What was the main crop of Ancient China?

a)

Rice paddies

b)

Wheat

c)

Grain

9.

What tools did the Egyptians use to transport water?

(a)  

10.

What percent of the water on earth is salty and unfit for consumption?

a)

97%

b)

95%

c)

98%

d)

94%

11.

The Indus and Euphrates/Tigris are similar in that they:

a)

Both flooded during the summer

b)

Both had heavily varied water levels

c)

Both flowed through Iran

d)

Both developed sustainable agriculture

e)

Both crossed through deserts

12.

What alternative to wheat was used by the Mesopotamians when they realized Wheat was not salt-tolerant?

a)

Rice

b)

Vetch

c)

Potatos

d)

Barley

e)

Lentils

13.

Cities of what sizes appeared in Mesopotamia?

a)

1000 - 2000 people

b)

10000 - 20000 people

c)

100000 - 200000 people

d)

1000000 - 2000000 people

e)

50000 - 100000 people

14.

Burning fields and then moving on when the soil is depleted is called -

a)

Swidden Agriculture

b)

Chinese Agriculture

c)

Inundation Agriculture

d)

Pastoralism

e)

Slash - And - Burn Agriculture

15.

Why could the Mesopotamians not rest their soil?

a)

Population pressure

b)

Floods

c)

Natural disasters

d)

Salinity

e)

Invasion of northern tribes

16.

What was the size of the average Chinese village before 1750 BCE?

a)

Under 200 people

b)

Under 250 people

c)

Under 400 people

d)

Under 490 people

e)

Under 538 people

17.

The climates of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley were both …

a)

Dry and hot

b)

Damp and hot

c)

Dry and cold

d)

Wet and cold

e)

Temperate

18.

Palynological studies study:

a)

Tree rings

b)

History

c)

Ancient texts

d)

Sand

e)

Dust

19.

The _____ soil could be blown away easily.

a)

Inundated

b)

Saline

c)

Palynological

d)

Loess

e)

Mohenjo-Daro

20.

Egyptian society had _____ cities.

a)

Little

b)

Many

c)

Enormous

d)

Monumental

e)

No

21.

Who studied the paradox of value in depth?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Plato

c)

Adam Smith

d)

Robert Koch

22.

Who isolated the cholera-causing bacterium?

a)

Adam Smith

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Robert Koch

d)

Louis Pasteur

23.

What was not problem agricultural water uses?

a)

Aquifer Depletion

b)

Water borne diseases

c)

Overuse

d)

None of above

24.

What caused this to happen?

(a)  

25.

What is not a problem with desalination?

a)

High construction costs

b)

High energy consumption

c)

Unclean water

d)

Salt pollution

26.

What disease was spread by Mongols through the Silk Road?

a)

The Bubonic Plague

b)

Influenza

c)

Tuberculosis

d)

Measles

27.

Who helped improve Water Wheels?

a)

Cistercian Monks

b)

Domesday Book

c)

Capetian Royalty

d)

Predestinaste Churches

e)

University Students

28.

What civilization allowed the pressurization of water in their waterworks?

a)

China

b)

Rome

c)

Aztecs

d)

Mayans

e)

Incans

29.

The Grand Canal is _____ km long.

a)

300

b)

1400

c)

1800

d)

2900

e)

13500

30.

Which of the below did the Chinese not invent?

a)

Mechanical Clock

b)

Porcelain

c)

National Newspaper

d)

Printed book

e)

Knife

31.

From where was Champa rice imported?

a)

Japan

b)

Iran

c)

Vietnam

d)

Mongolia

e)

Siam

32.

The intense labor the Chinese put into their waterworks led to:

a)

Production soaring

b)

Fields salinizing.

c)

Rebellions happening

d)

Shortages of materials occuring

e)

Maths worsening

33.

What book said there were 6000 Mills in England?

a)

The Bible

b)

The Domesday Book

c)

Don Quixote

d)

History of England

e)

The Dark Age Chronicles

34.

Politically, the great canal led to …

a)

Chinese people constantly rebelling

b)

The East and West being divided

c)

The North and South forming a closer political union

d)

More bureaucrats being hired to mantain the canal

e)

A more modern law system over the disputes related to the canal

35.

twenty-four ______ allowed ships to travel between different elevations in the Grand Canal.

a)

Ropes

b)

Locks

c)

People

d)

Hydraulisms

e)

Watergates

36.

Where was the start and end of the Grand Canal?

a)

Beijing and Shanghai

b)

Lushun and Hangzhou

c)

Shenyang and Hangzhou

d)

Jinan and Nanjing

e)

Changchun and Nanchang

37.

What frequency of a pure sine wave sounds like an A above middle C?

a)

410 Hz

b)

430 Hz

c)

450 Hz

d)

470 Hz

38.

What is an ethnomusicologist?

a)

Scholars that study the role of music in religion

b)

Scholars who study the origins of music

c)

Scholars who study the music of other cultures

d)

Scholars who study instrument categorization

39.

By which terms did Sachs and Hornbostel classify modern percussion instruments?

a)

Membranophones and Idiophones

b)

Chordophones and Idiophones

c)

Aerophones and Membranophones

d)

Chordphones and Aerophones

40.

What quality refers to the brightness or purity of a color?

a)

Shading

b)

Absoluteness

c)

Hue

d)

Intensity

41.

____________created organic buildings without any flat surfaces or straight lines and lived from ____ to ____

a)

Antonio Gaudi, 1842-1916

b)

Antonio Gaudi, 1852-1926

c)

Antonio Gaudi, 1848-1922

d)

Antonio Gaudi, 1854-1928

42.

What does “Lacrimosa” mean?

a)

Weeping

b)

Sleeping

c)

Swimming

d)

Singing

43.

What is considered a “standard” set of the jal-tarang?

a)

22 bowls

b)

21 bowls

c)

16 bowls

d)

15 bowls

44.

How old were the bowls that Milind Talunkar used in a 2017 TEDx Talk?

a)

100 years

b)

90 years

c)

80 years

d)

75 years

45.

How many capitalized words does the title of the first known method book for water tuned glasses contain?

a)

14

b)

16

c)

18

d)

20

46.

What was the armonica first called by a British newspaper in 1762?

a)

Glassy-chord

b)

Spinning glass

c)

Spinning bowls

d)

The angelic organ

47.

Which Pope awarded Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur?

a)

Pope Clement XV

b)

Pope Clement XIV

c)

Pope Clement XVI

d)

Pope Clement XVII

48.

What illness did Marianne Kirchgaessner contract at the age of four?

a)

Smallpox

b)

Cholera

c)

Diabetes

d)

Deafness

49.

What is believed by most that Ctesbius invented?

a)

The aqueduct

b)

The water organ

c)

The bath

d)

The hydraulis

50.

Which category of entertainment developed in the 1960’s?

a)

Water rock

b)

Steam rock

c)

Mist music

d)

Surf music

51.

Which sea song was banned by threat of flogging?

a)

The Sea Martyrs

b)

Vernon’s Glory

c)

The True English Sailor

d)

The Heroes of the British Fleet

52.

In Lizst’s Années de pèlerinage, where is the first ‘year’ dedicated to?

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Switzerland

d)

Italy

53.

What is a fermata?

a)

A sign to speed up

b)

A scale like passage

c)

A sign to stop and prolong a note

d)

An instruction to decrease the volume

54.

Which of the following is not one of the Four Treasures of the Scholar’s Studio?

a)

Ink brush

b)

Ink tray

c)

Ink stone

d)

Ink stick

55.

What is not one of the components of rice paper?

a)

Rice

b)

Bamboo

c)

Mulberry bark

d)

Hemp

56.

Who is credited as the inventor of ink wash animation?

a)

Xie He

b)

Te wei

c)

Xu Jing Da

d)

Duan Xiao Xuan