ISU GEO 135 FINAL EXAM Questions And 100% Solved Solutions.
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ILLINOIS STATE GEO 135
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ILLINOIS STATE GEO 135
Aral sea crisis - Answer the steady shrinking of the Aral sea since the 1960s. It is considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters on the planet
Who caused the Aral sea crisis? - Answer the Soviet government
How did the Aral sea crisis happen? - Answer -the Soviet governm...
ISU GEO 135 FINAL EXAM Questions
And 100% Solved Solutions.
Aral sea crisis - Answer the steady shrinking of the Aral sea since the 1960s. It is considered to be one
of the worst environmental disasters on the planet
Who caused the Aral sea crisis? - Answer the Soviet government
How did the Aral sea crisis happen? - Answer -the Soviet government wanted to develop an irrigation
system to grow and water their crops (cotton) and export it in order to increase the quality of living for
the people
-the government knew that this would decrease the inland water flow into the aral sea and making it
very salty, but they thought that the tradeoff would be worth it in the end
What are some impacts from the Aral sea crisis? - Answer -fish died off
-fisheries lost jobs and income
-local agriculture suffered
-large salt flats formed and windstorms picked them up and deposited into nearby fields
-water for irrigation declined and fewer crops could be grown
-health problems rose due to poor drinking water
-air pollution
what are the impacts from landmines? - Answer just the risk alone of them is enough to keep people
away from and out of central asia/afghanistan
the great game - Answer afghanistan became a pawn (britain and russia fought over boundary)
wakhan corridor - Answer -a strip of land between british india and russian pamir mountains
-impact: this resulted in a command economy where people from a different geographic location are
telling you what to do and how to live and work
collectivization - Answer -definition: all lands, goods, and equipment are now the governments
-impact: everything is no longer privately owned (not your stuff), consolidation of ag (large farms), and
farmers paid stipends or based on productivity
-Ag example: nomadic herders are forced to settle, fence in livestock (first harsh winter 95% sheep died,
80% cattle), widespread famine
russification - Answer -definition: be russian
-impact: there was cultural control, emphasis on russian language, and little to no freedom for people to
express their own religion, language, culture, etc
landlocked - Answer surrounded by other countries, states, etc, and has no coast
-mountains: many routes go through russia, conflict torn areas generally destabilize the region,
considered developing
landlock impact on trade - Answer -limited transportation routes make it difficult for this region to
trade with other countries and as a result they grow more slowly than their coastal neighbors
landlock impact on pop. distribution - Answer these areas are less populated than coastal areas
because of the poor and slow development
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