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WorksheetsEnvironmental Changes and Their Impact
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What overall issue is the text about?
Building new tourist sites
Moving ancient cities
Famous places disappearing
Finding new lakes
In which mountains was the Chacaltaya Glacier located?
The Andes
The Alps
The Rockies
The Himalayas
What made Chacaltaya famous before it vanished?
Deep caves
Longest hiking trail
Oldest forest
Highest ski run
What mainly caused the glacier to disappear?
Lack of snowplows
Climate change
Earthquakes
Mining
Which idea is mentioned to reduce warming?
Paving roads over ice
Cutting down trees
Turning CO₂ into rock
Spraying water on glaciers
What is happening to the forest in Mirador Basin & Tikal?
It is flooding yearly
It’s turning into desert
It’s growing faster
It’s being burned for farms
Why is this Guatemalan area important?
It has Mayan ruins and pyramids
It has Roman amphitheaters
It has Viking ships
It has Inca fortresses
One solution for Mirador/Tikal suggested in the text is to…
Ask villagers to help protect the land
Move ruins to a museum
Close the park to locals
Plant only palm trees
What are the Nazca Lines?
Underground tunnels
A chain of mountains
Huge ancient ground drawings
A river system
What recently increased the danger to the Nazca Lines?
Frost
Tourism and vandalism
Heavy rainfall
Sand mining
What protective step is proposed for the Nazca Lines?
Painting over them
Planting grass
Covering with plastic
Building a wall/barrier by the road
The Dead Sea is best described as a…
Salt-water lake
Freshwater river
Man-made canal
Volcano crater
Why has the Dead Sea become much shallower?
Ships remove water
Fish populations boomed
River Jordan water is diverted/used
Extra rainfall diluted it
What action is needed to save the Dead Sea?
Add more boats
Change regional water use to restore inflow
Build ski resorts
Release fish into it
What big message ties all four cases together?
Human choices and climate change are damaging key sites
Nature always fixes itself without help
Only tourists can save these places
Technology has no role in solutions
