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Environmental Disasters

Description: Environmental Disasters
Number of Questions: 19
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Tags: evs science
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River in Ohio that caught fire more than once, led to Clean Water Act of '72

  1. Danube River Fire

  2. Mississippi River Fire

  3. Nile River Fire

  4. Cuyahoga River Fire


Correct Option: D

Switch to new water source caused pipe corrosion, lead in drinking water, began in 2014

  1. Flint Water Crisis

  2. Aswan High Dam

  3. Aral Sea

  4. Hoover Dam


Correct Option: A

Accident in Italy, released lg quantities of Dioxin, (chem in Agnt Ornge), chloracne & neuro

  1. Seveso Accident

  2. Minamata Disease

  3. Chevron Toxic Waste

  4. Fukushima


Correct Option: A

Site was developed for nuclear waste, currently not in use, dry cask storage of waste @ sites

  1. Yucca Mountain

  2. Fukushima

  3. Mono Lake

  4. Love Canal


Correct Option: A

Leak of cyanide into river by gold mining company in Romania

  1. Cats in Borneo

  2. Baia Mare Disaster

  3. Love Canal

  4. Chevron Toxic Waste


Correct Option: B

Dam in Egypt, displaced people and archaeological sites, protects against drought

  1. Aswan High Dam

  2. Hoover Dam

  3. Three Gorges Dam

  4. Beaver Dam


Correct Option: A

Neighborhood in NY, contam w toxic waste, birth defects, area abandoned, Superfund law resulted

  1. Love Canal

  2. Love Boat

  3. I'm Lovin It

  4. All you need is love


Correct Option: A

Sea in Kazakhstan that has almost disappeared due to the use of the body to irrigate the desert

  1. Aral Sea

  2. Hudson Bay

  3. Mono Lake

  4. Dust Bowl


Correct Option: A

Dam on the Yangtze River, drastically reduces coal consumption and helps with flooding

  1. Hoover Dam

  2. Three Gorges Dam

  3. Aswan High Dam

  4. Beaver Dam


Correct Option: B

Fertilizer in Mississ. watershed-->algal blooms-->incr in bacteria-->no oxygen for aquatic life

  1. Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

  2. St James Bay

  3. Dust Bowl

  4. Hurricane Floyd


Correct Option: A

Neurological syndrome caused by mercury poisoning, Japan, dumping of indust wastewater --> fish

  1. Minamata Disease

  2. Stockholm Syndrome

  3. Typhoid Fever

  4. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome


Correct Option: A

Worst nuclear disaster, Ukraine, city had to be evacuated, '86, UN has a restoration program

  1. Fukushima

  2. Chernobyl

  3. Dust Bowl

  4. Seveso


Correct Option: B

2nd lgest US oil spill, '89, Alaska, hit a reef, was promised 2 have detecting equip but didn't

  1. Deepwater Horizon

  2. BP oil spill

  3. Minamata Disease

  4. Exxon Valdez


Correct Option: D

Hydroelec. proj in Canada, caused Hg pollution, displaced native ppl, messes w salmon migration

  1. St. James Bay Project

  2. Three Gorges Dam

  3. Aswan High Dam

  4. Beaver Dam


Correct Option: A

Offshore oil rig leased by BP, had an explosion that killed 11, largest oil spill in us history

  1. Exxon Valdez

  2. Seveso Industrial Accident

  3. Deepwater Horizon

  4. Chevron Toxic Waste


Correct Option: C

Large aquifer in central US, overextracted for farming & fracking, 6000 yrs to recharge

  1. Edward's aquifer

  2. Ogallala aquifer

  3. Floridian aquifer

  4. Amazon basin


Correct Option: B

Pesticide leak in India, killed over 3000 ppl, 500,000 injuries, worst industrial disaster

  1. Chevron Toxic Waste Disaster

  2. Bhopal Disaster

  3. Cuyahoga River Fire

  4. Minamata Disease


Correct Option: B

Nuclear disaster in PA bc of a faulty valve, linked to thyroid cancer, decrease in plants after

  1. Love Canal

  2. Fukushima

  3. Three Mile Island

  4. Chernobyl


Correct Option: C
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