Individual SS - Flashcards
UNFAO
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
The total value of all goods and services brought to market by a country each year.
An international agreement that banned the use of CFC’s due to its damage to the ozone layer.
The Montreal Protocol.
The largest fresh water lake in the world.
Lake Baikal, Siberia
A method to break down and process sewage.
Sludge activation process
The city in India that attracts millions of elderly and terminally ill Hindus each year to prepare for the disposal of their bodies in the Ganges.
Varanasi
The plan developed by the Indian government to coordinate clean-up efforts for the Ganges River.
The Ganga Action Plan
The company that is responsible for the pollution of Japan’s Watarase River.
The Ashio copper mine
The cause of Minamata disease.
Mercury poisoning.
A plan adopted in 1975 to manage the environmental impact of pollution on the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
The dam constructed on the headwaters of the Nile to provide hydroelectric power to Uganda and western Kenya.
Owen Falls Dam
The underground aquifer that stretches from the Texas Panhandle to western South Dakota.
The Ogallala (or High Plains) Aquifer
The American company that built the pipelines that deliver water to coastal cities in Libya.
Occidental Petroleum
The government-sponsored project that pioneered the development of multipurpose dams in the United States.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The dam on the Colorado River that was the world’s largest dam when it was built in the 1930s.
Boulder (Hoover) Dam
The prime minister of India who referred to dams as “temples of modern India.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
The two major rivers of Central Asia that feed the Aral Sea.
The Syr Dar’ya and the Amu Dar’ya
The first person to propose building the Aswan Dam on the Nile to protect Egyptian farmland from flooding and provide electricity.
Adrian Daninos.
The Egyptian leader who seized the Suez Canal from British control and used the revenue to construct the Aswan Dam.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
The canal that was built to divert water from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley in California.
The Alamo Canal
The first dam to be built on the Salt River, a tributary of the Colorado River system.
Roosevelt Dam
The dam constructed by the Chinese to control the Yangtze River.
The Three Gorges Dam
The event that prompted the federal government to pass the Flood Control Acts of 1928 and 1936.
The massive flooding caused by the Mississippi River in 1927.
The federal organization that was assigned the task of building levees along American river systems.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The person who coined the term “biosphere”.
Edward Seuss
The person who organized efforts to combat cholera outbreaks that affected pilgrims to Mecca.
Muhammad Ali.
The person who discovered penicillin.
Alexander Fleming.
The person who developed a method to mass produce penicillin.
Howard Florey.
HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
A disease that is carried by snails.
Schistosomiasis
The species of mosquitos that is a vector for malaria.
Anopheles gambiae
The Indonesian leader who awarded logging concessions to loyal military officers and friends that resulted in mass exporting of logs to foreign countries.
General Sukarno
The person who developed the harpoon cannon.
Svend Føyn.
The person who developed the stern slipway, which allowed the processing of whales at sea.
Petter Sørlle.
El Niño
Short-lived fluctuations in Pacific Ocean currents, which bring warmer, nutrient-poor water to the coasts of North and South America.
EEZs
Exclusive Economic Zones, territorial waters proclaimed by countries to protect fisheries from foreign fishing fleets.
Thomas Austin
Person responsible for introducing the European rabbit to the continent of Australia
The 1918 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for developing a method to synthesize ammonia.
Fritz Haber
Sir William Allardyce
The British governor of South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands who placed restriction on whaling in coastal waters to preserve whale stock.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The leader of the Turkish Revolution and first president of the Republic of Turkey.
Bamboo Spear Affair
An uprising of farmers against the Kosaka mine in Japan in 1926 caused by copper contamination of farmland from the mine’s smelting plant.
Norman Borlaug
Winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with plant breeding. He is the father of Mexico’s Green Revolution
AID
U.S. Agency for International Development
IRRI
International Rice Research Institute
Karl Bosch
Developed methods for using the Haber ammonia synthesis process in the mass production of nitrates.
Cavour Canal
A water canal constructed to carry water from the upper Po Valley to agricultural fields in Lombardy.
Andrew Carnegie
American industrialist who amassed a fortune as owner of American Steel.
British Clean Air Act of 1956
A law that sharply regulated domestic coal smoke in London and helped London to switch to gas and electric heat sources
US. Clean Air Act of 1970
A law that sharply regulated domestic coal smoke in London and helped London to switch to gas and electric heat sources.
U.N. Conference on Environment and Development
Developed a non-binding resolution to ban logging in tropical forests by the year 2000.
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon
Viceroy of India, established a smoke inspectorate in 1903 in India to enforce laws against coal smoke emissions.
Edwin Drake
Proved that oil could be extracted by using drilling rigs.
Anthony Eden
Prime minister of Great Britain during the Suez crisis.
J.C. Farman
Confirmed the thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica.
Thomas Midgely
Inventor of chlorofluorocarbons; developed leading gas to increase efficiency of combustion engines.
Vienna Convention (1985)
Conference held by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address ozone depletion. The conference resulted in the Montreal Protocol.
Clarence Gigot
A farmer and rancher who used center-pivot irrigation using water from the Ogallala aquifer to develop farmland in southwestern Kansas.
Hosokawa Hajime
Prominent Japanese doctor who confirmed that Minamata disease was caused by mercury poisoning.
Armand Hammer
Owner of Occidental Petroleum, who built the water pipelines in Libya.
Hooker Chemical Company
Chemical company responsible for toxic pollution in Love Canal, New York.
Furukawa Ichibei
Japanese industrialist who owned the Ashio copper mine.
Edward Jenner
Developed vaccine for smallpox.
Jonglei Canal
Canal built in the Sudd swamp in Sudan to reduce evaporation loss and improve the water supply from the Nile River.
John Lawes
Invented the first artificial fertilizer.
Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps
Builder of the Suez Canal.
Mario Molina
Scientist who first proposed the depletion of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons.
Kanichi Nakayasu
Japanese industrial who proposed regulations on emissions to improve the air quality in Ube, Japan.
Muammar el-Qaddafi
Leader of Libya, who convinced Occidental Petroleum to build two water pipelines to provide fresh water to cities along the Libyan coast.
John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist and philanthropist who financed efforts to eliminate hookworm disease and eradicate malaria.
Sherwood Rowland
Scientist who, with Mario Molina, proposed the role of halocarbons in the thinning of the ozone layer.
Shozo Tanaka
A member of the Japanese Diet who demanded the shutdown of the Ashio copper mine after peasants marched on Tokyo in protest against the pollution caused by the mine.
Henry Wallace
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President, the first farmer to make hybrid corn a commercial success, the father of industrialized agriculture.
James Young
Developed process to refine crude oil.
Virgin Lands Scheme
Government-sponsored program in USSR to encourage immigration and development of agricultural lands on the Russian and Kazakh steppes.
WHO
World Health Organization
