42a - Water Issues in SW Asia Remediation

Multiple Choice

Most of SW Asia is covered in which type of land form?

• desert

• desalination

• salt water

• forest

Multiple Choice

Which river is the border between Israel and Jordan?

• Tigris River

• Jordan River

• Euphrates River

Multiple Choice

Where can people find water in the desert?

• desalination plants

• dams

• oases (oasis)

• rivers

Multiple Choice

Most countries in SW Asia (Middle East) receive very little?

• sunlight

• rainfall

• heat

Multiple Choice

What is desalination?

• adding salt to freshwater

• adding salt to seawater

• removing salt from seawater

• removing salt from freshwater

Multiple Choice

How has the building of dams created problems for countries sharing rivers in Southwest Asia?

• Dams are too expensive to build to be practical

• Dams limit the water available to countries further downstream

• Few countries have the technology needed to be able to build dams

• Countries in Southwest Asia are not allowed to build dams along shared rivers

Multiple Choice

How has the use of chemical fertilizers affected water supplies in many countries in Southwest Asia?

• Use of chemical fertilizers means crops must be watered constantly

• Enormous amounts of water must be used to produce chemical fertilizers

• Chemical fertilizers have had very little effect on local water supplies in Southwest Asia

• Water supplies have contaminated by the chemicals through runoff from the fields

Multiple Choice

Why aren't desalinization and drip irrigation used more in Southwest Asia?

• Most countries do not know about these technologies

• Drip irrigation is not very effective in a hot, dry climate

• Few countries in Southwest Asia have access to seawater

• These technologies are very expensive for the countries to use

Multiple Choice

What word means to artificially apply water to land to help with farming and agriculture?

• Irrigation
• Scarcity
• Agriculture
• Basin

Multiple Choice

Why is there so much competition for fresh water in SW Asia?

• There is so much water that countries want to collect as much as they can to sell to countries facing droughts on other continents

• The water supply is distributed unevenly, and there is not enough water to support the needs of the people, so it must be used wisely

• The mountain and plateau regions take water from the desert regions because the deserts have a surplus

• There is water scarcity near rivers and coastlines