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Environmental Changes and Their Impact

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

What overall issue is the text about?

a)

Building new tourist sites

b)

Moving ancient cities

c)

Famous places disappearing

d)

Finding new lakes

2.

In which mountains was the Chacaltaya Glacier located?

a)

The Andes

b)

The Alps

c)

The Rockies

d)

The Himalayas

3.

What made Chacaltaya famous before it vanished?

a)

Deep caves

b)

Longest hiking trail

c)

Oldest forest

d)

Highest ski run

4.

What mainly caused the glacier to disappear?

a)

Lack of snowplows

b)

Climate change

c)

Earthquakes

d)

Mining

5.

Which idea is mentioned to reduce warming?

a)

Paving roads over ice

b)

Cutting down trees

c)

Turning CO₂ into rock

d)

Spraying water on glaciers

6.

What is happening to the forest in Mirador Basin & Tikal?

a)

It is flooding yearly

b)

It’s turning into desert

c)

It’s growing faster

d)

It’s being burned for farms

7.

Why is this Guatemalan area important?

a)

It has Mayan ruins and pyramids

b)

It has Roman amphitheaters

c)

It has Viking ships

d)

It has Inca fortresses

8.

One solution for Mirador/Tikal suggested in the text is to…

a)

Ask villagers to help protect the land

b)

Move ruins to a museum

c)

Close the park to locals

d)

Plant only palm trees

9.

What are the Nazca Lines?

a)

Underground tunnels

b)

A chain of mountains

c)

Huge ancient ground drawings

d)

A river system

10.

What recently increased the danger to the Nazca Lines?

a)

Frost

b)

Tourism and vandalism

c)

Heavy rainfall

d)

Sand mining

11.

What protective step is proposed for the Nazca Lines?

a)

Painting over them

b)

Planting grass

c)

Covering with plastic

d)

Building a wall/barrier by the road

12.

The Dead Sea is best described as a…

a)

Salt-water lake

b)

Freshwater river

c)

Man-made canal

d)

Volcano crater

13.

Why has the Dead Sea become much shallower?

a)

Ships remove water

b)

Fish populations boomed

c)

River Jordan water is diverted/used

d)

Extra rainfall diluted it

14.

What action is needed to save the Dead Sea?

a)

Add more boats

b)

Change regional water use to restore inflow

c)

Build ski resorts

d)

Release fish into it

15.

What big message ties all four cases together?

a)

Human choices and climate change are damaging key sites

b)

Nature always fixes itself without help

c)

Only tourists can save these places

d)

Technology has no role in solutions