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Water Crisis
Irish Potato Famine
The Great Stink
Housing Crisis
100

In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, food, water, sleep, and shelter would be found at this level.

What is physiological needs.

100

In many developing regions, this group is most often responsible for walking long distances to fetch water.

Who are women and girls.

100

This disease, caused by a water mold, destroyed the potato crop year after year.

What is the potato blight.

100

T/F... the river Thames was so polluted that Queen Victoria had to hold a bouquet of flowers over her nose to mask the smell.

What is true.

100

These crowded apartment buildings, housing immigrant families, often had airshafts barely wider than an arm's reach.

What are tenements.

200

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you would find feeling accepted, family, and friends at this level.

What is love and belonging.

200

Polluted rivers and groundwater often result from this — runoff from farms, factories, and cities.

What is water pollution.

200

This was the most common destination for Irish emigrants fleeing the famine, about 1 million arrived there by 1851.

What is the United States. (accept Canada also)

200

The Great Stink happened because London's sewage drained directly into this river — the city's main water source.

What is the Thames.

200

Most tenements had no indoor plumbing, so families used these shared outhouse-style facilities in the rear yard.

What are outhouses or privies.

300

T/F... Mr. Battern's favorite MLB team is the Chicago Cub.

What is false- St. Louis Cardinals on top!

300

When people take groundwater faster than rain can replace it, this happens to aquifers.

What is depletion.

300

Emigrant ships carrying sick passengers were grimly nicknamed for the high death rates aboard.

What are coffin ships.

300

Cholera's most feared symptom is severe loss of fluids from this.

What is diarrhea.

300

Families took in this kind of work — like sewing or making cigars — to earn extra money in dark, cramped rooms.

What is piece work, sweatshop, or home work (all accepted).

400

T/F... Mrs. Lampe graduated from Iowa State University.

False... University of Northern Iowa (Go Cats!)

400

This waterborne disease, caused by contaminated water, causes severe diarrhea and kills thousands of children yearly.

What is cholera.

400

This single crop, which fed most of Ireland's poor, was wiped out starting in 1845.

What is the potato.

400

Snow's evidence included a case where a woman died of cholera far from the outbreak — because her son delivered her water from this source.

What is the Broad Street Pump.

400

This disease, spread by contaminated water and linked to the same poor sanitation you've studied with John Snow, still erupted in NYC's crowded wards.

What is cholera.

500

According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid, a school with clear expectations, plans, and systems helps meet students' needs at this level.

What is safety.

500

 In 2010, the UN declared this to be a basic human right.

What is access to clean water and sanitation.

500

This religious group, known for their philanthropy organized soup kitchens, and relief work to help the people of Ireland; became widely known as "The Friends".

What are the Quakers.

500

 In this year, hot weather made the Thames stink so badly that Parliament nearly fled.

What is 1858.

500

This journalist photographed tenement life at night in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890).

Who is Jacob Riis.

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