Social Science Section I-IV

Why PRIMARILY is conserving the Ogallala Aquifer unusually difficult?

The Soviet Union proposed redirecting the great Siberian rivers into the

Which two types of regions did the Grand Canal connect?

What are viaducts?

The Mongols rose to prominence under the leadership of

By what factor did the population of London increase from 1800 to 1850?

Why do farmers in the Global South need to buy seeds every year?

Greece’s physical geography can BEST be described as

Environmental historians focus LEAST on

Which country financed LMEST projects to win the allegiance of Pakistan during the Cold War?

Which river is the only outlet for Lake Victoria?

After all the clay was removed, the Potteries district in London became a(n)

What mistake did Wittfogel make about early Chinese agriculture?

Which state’s legislature endorsed a plan to tow two small icebergs in 1978?

The area near the Tigris and Euphrates could BEST be described as

How was the flooding of the Indus River MOST like the Nile?

Which lake dried up after the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct?

The first water treatment plants appeared in

Which animal did NOT disappear in Germany due to drainage projects?

What was the MOST common drink in the medieval period?

The person credited with inventing the term “tragedy of the commons” was a(n)

In 1994, Israel signed a peace treaty with

All of the following countries are located above the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer EXCEPT

Which of the following features was NOT a part of the modern Dutch republic?

The flow of the Colorado River dropped to 164 cubic meters per second after the completion of the

Which period in Dutch history immediately followed Dutch independence?

In the 1970s, the Ogallala Aquifer provided water for nearly forty percent of United States

Why did people of early civilization engineer the landscape?

Which of the following major American cities is CLOSEST to the Merrimack River?

The Chinese government’s plan to improve rural sanitation and sanitary infrastructure is called the

The water agency for Cochabamba in the late twentieth century used the acronym

Water’s boiling and freezing points are BEST described as being

The organism that causes malaria is a type of

The practice of settled agriculture coincided MOST with the

How did early Egyptians alter the Nile’s flow?

Many modern Bedouins reject the authority of

Karl Wittfogel's primary thesis argued that reengineering the landscape changed the nature of

The Great Garbage Patch mostly contains

Which company caused the Valdez catastrophe in 1989?

Compared to those of unirrigated areas, the pantheons of Middle Eastern settlements contained more

What sentences describes floodwater farming?

Which plant propagated in Lake Victoria due to eutrophication and led to fish kills?

What did the President of Bolivia do in April 2000 in response to the Cochabamba protests?

Which country signed the Guarani Aquifer Agreement LAST?

Why did salinization become a problem for Egyptian farmers after damming the Nile River?

Which canal links the Baltic Sea and the North Sea?

Which of the following substances is NOT one of the four humors?

Which Roman leader proposed a grain law in 123 BCE?

The Three Gorges Dam spans the

. When other compounds are placed in water, they tend to

How does reverse-osmosis filtration work?

John Snow linked cholera cases to a pump on

Fluoride is added to filtered water to

Which disease frequently plagued workers on the Oder River project?

The Piave River is in

The newly drained lands in the Netherlands became

Which type of emission decreased thirty to forty percent in North America due to the LRTAP and similar agreements?

Which household appliance is responsible for the acceleration of eutrophication in the postwar period?

Which material did ancient Romans MOST use to build aqueduct pipes?

Which of the following metals did the Minamata chemical factory pollute?

In the Critias, Plato describes Greek environmental destruction resulting from

Which event precipitated Egypt’s colonization?

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, why do the gods bring a flood?

Which of the following practices MOST allowed Bedouins to conserve water?

Which of the following low-value crops is often grown in the Southwest?

What Industrial Revolution created more irrigated land?

Which region in South Asia became the British Empire’s greatest source of tax revenue by 1915?

How do MOST water treatment plants purify water?

The Modern period is associated with the irrigation technology of

What was the thirteenth-century London aqueduct called?