Environmental Problems
What thin layer of gases protects Earth from ultraviolet rays?
What is the ozone layer?
What is the term for the trapping of heat in Earth’s atmosphere?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is the term for the use of technology to increase food production?
What is the Green Revolution?
What does nuclear proliferation refer to?
What is the spread of nuclear technology to more countries?
From which European country did Cambodia and Vietnam gain independence in the 1950s?
What is France?
What type of rain contains chemicals from pollution?
What is acid rain?
What international agreement in 1997 aimed to reduce greenhouse gases?
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
What country especially benefited from the Green Revolution?
What is India?
What can nuclear technology be used for besides weapons?
What is generating energy or electricity?
Who was the nationalist leader that fought for Vietnam’s independence from France?
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
What is the term for cutting down rainforests in places like the Amazon?
What is deforestation?
What could happen to coastal areas if global warming continues?
What is flooding?
What farming method involves using large amounts of fertilizer and pesticides?
What is modern or industrial agriculture?
What communist country recently developed nuclear weapons?
What is North Korea?
After independence, Vietnam was divided into what two types of governments?
What are communist North Vietnam and democratic South Vietnam?
What is the process where fertile land turns into desert?
What is desertification?
What gas, released by burning fossil fuels, contributes heavily to climate change?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is one key benefit of the Green Revolution?
What is decreased hunger or increased food supply?
Which Middle Eastern country may be developing nuclear weapons?
What is Iran?
What was the outcome for Vietnam after the Vietnam War?
What is reunification into one communist nation?
What 1986 nuclear disaster exposed thousands to radiation?
What is Chernobyl?
Why is international cooperation needed to solve environmental problems?
Because environmental issues affect the entire planet.
What new technologies were introduced during the Green Revolution?
What are improved seeds, irrigation systems, and machinery?
Why is nuclear proliferation a global concern?
Because it increases the risk of nuclear war or conflict.
What brutal leader ruled Cambodia after independence and led a genocide killing 2 million people?
Who is Pol Pot?