Environmental Geography Quiz Review

What type of geography focuses on how people and their natural environment interact?

• Physical geography

• Population geography

• Environmental Geography

• Political geography

The first agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent between which two rivers?

• Tigris and Euprates

• Nile and Amazon

• Huang He and Yangtze

• Colorado and Rio Grande

Which revolution helped less developed countries increase crop yields between the 1920s and 1960s?

• Green Revolution

• Marxist Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Harvesting Revolution

What is a genetically modified organism (GMO)?

• foods that have been created through genetic engineering

• foods that are forbidden in many world religions

• foods that cause allergies in people who eat them

What is a becoming an increasingly bigger problem in Sub-Saharan Africa due to desertification?

• Access to clean water

• Lack of food (famine)

• Overuse of GMOs

• Wars between different cultural groups

What do the Colorado River and the Rio Grande have in common?

• The US and Mexico have to negotiate water rights to both rivers

• Both are heavily polluted at the source

• They are both at risk of disappearing due to desertification

The fishing industry in this region was incredibly important. In the 1960s, when the Soviet Union diverted water for irrigation, this body of water nearly dried up. What body of water is being described?

• Aral Sea

• Black Sea

• Caspian Sea

• North Sea

Growing crops and raising live stock to meet family needs is called

• Commercial farming

• Mixed farming

• Subsistence farming

Farming and raising livestock for profit is called

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

• Arable farming

What environmental problem marginalizes women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• Lack of accessible water

• Industrial farming takes over family farms

• GMO foods are losing their value