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UNFAO

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United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.

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Gross domestic product (GDP)

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The total value of all goods and services brought to market by a country each year.

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An international agreement that banned the use of CFC’s due to its damage to the ozone layer.

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The Montreal Protocol.

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The largest fresh water lake in the world.

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Lake Baikal, Siberia

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A method to break down and process sewage.

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Sludge activation process

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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.

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Varanasi

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The plan developed by the Indian government to coordinate clean-up efforts for the Ganges River.

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The Ganga Action Plan

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The company that is responsible for the pollution of Japan’s Watarase River.

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The Ashio copper mine

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The cause of Minamata disease.

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Mercury poisoning.

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A plan adopted in 1975 to manage the environmental impact of pollution on the Mediterranean.

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The Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)

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The dam constructed on the headwaters of the Nile to provide hydroelectric power to Uganda and western Kenya.

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Owen Falls Dam

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The underground aquifer that stretches from the Texas Panhandle to western South Dakota.

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The Ogallala (or High Plains) Aquifer

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The American company that built the pipelines that deliver water to coastal cities in Libya.

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Occidental Petroleum

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The government-sponsored project that pioneered the development of multipurpose dams in the United States.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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The dam on the Colorado River that was the world’s largest dam when it was built in the 1930s.

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Boulder (Hoover) Dam

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The prime minister of India who referred to dams as “temples of modern India.”

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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The two major rivers of Central Asia that feed the Aral Sea.

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The Syr Dar’ya and the Amu Dar’ya

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The first person to propose building the Aswan Dam on the Nile to protect Egyptian farmland from flooding and provide electricity.

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Adrian Daninos.

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The Egyptian leader who seized the Suez Canal from British control and used the revenue to construct the Aswan Dam.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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The canal that was built to divert water from the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley in California.

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The Alamo Canal

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The first dam to be built on the Salt River, a tributary of the Colorado River system.

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Roosevelt Dam

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The dam constructed by the Chinese to control the Yangtze River.

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The Three Gorges Dam

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The event that prompted the federal government to pass the Flood Control Acts of 1928 and 1936.

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The massive flooding caused by the Mississippi River in 1927.

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The federal organization that was assigned the task of building levees along American river systems.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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The person who coined the term “biosphere”.

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Edward Seuss

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The person who organized efforts to combat cholera outbreaks that affected pilgrims to Mecca.

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Muhammad Ali.

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The person who discovered penicillin.

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Alexander Fleming.

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The person who developed a method to mass produce penicillin.

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Howard Florey.

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HIV

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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A disease that is carried by snails.

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Schistosomiasis

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The species of mosquitos that is a vector for malaria.

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Anopheles gambiae

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The Indonesian leader who awarded logging concessions to loyal military officers and friends that resulted in mass exporting of logs to foreign countries.

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General Sukarno

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The person who developed the harpoon cannon.

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Svend Føyn.

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The person who developed the stern slipway, which allowed the processing of whales at sea.

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Petter Sørlle.

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El Niño

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Short-lived fluctuations in Pacific Ocean currents, which bring warmer, nutrient-poor water to the coasts of North and South America.

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EEZs

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Exclusive Economic Zones, territorial waters proclaimed by countries to protect fisheries from foreign fishing fleets.

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Thomas Austin

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Person responsible for introducing the European rabbit to the continent of Australia

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The 1918 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for developing a method to synthesize ammonia.

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Fritz Haber

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Sir William Allardyce

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The British governor of South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands who placed restriction on whaling in coastal waters to preserve whale stock.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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The leader of the Turkish Revolution and first president of the Republic of Turkey.

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Bamboo Spear Affair

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An uprising of farmers against the Kosaka mine in Japan in 1926 caused by copper contamination of farmland from the mine’s smelting plant.

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Norman Borlaug

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Winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with plant breeding. He is the father of Mexico’s Green Revolution

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AID

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U.S. Agency for International Development

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IRRI

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International Rice Research Institute

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Karl Bosch

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Developed methods for using the Haber ammonia synthesis process in the mass production of nitrates.

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Cavour Canal

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A water canal constructed to carry water from the upper Po Valley to agricultural fields in Lombardy.

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Andrew Carnegie

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American industrialist who amassed a fortune as owner of American Steel.

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British Clean Air Act of 1956

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A law that sharply regulated domestic coal smoke in London and helped London to switch to gas and electric heat sources

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US. Clean Air Act of 1970

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A law that sharply regulated domestic coal smoke in London and helped London to switch to gas and electric heat sources.

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U.N. Conference on Environment and Development

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Developed a non-binding resolution to ban logging in tropical forests by the year 2000.

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Lord George Nathaniel Curzon

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Viceroy of India, established a smoke inspectorate in 1903 in India to enforce laws against coal smoke emissions.

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Edwin Drake

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Proved that oil could be extracted by using drilling rigs.

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Anthony Eden

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Prime minister of Great Britain during the Suez crisis.

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J.C. Farman

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Confirmed the thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica.

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Thomas Midgely

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Inventor of chlorofluorocarbons; developed leading gas to increase efficiency of combustion engines.

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Vienna Convention (1985)

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Conference held by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address ozone depletion. The conference resulted in the Montreal Protocol.

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Clarence Gigot

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A farmer and rancher who used center-pivot irrigation using water from the Ogallala aquifer to develop farmland in southwestern Kansas.

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Hosokawa Hajime

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Prominent Japanese doctor who confirmed that Minamata disease was caused by mercury poisoning.

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Armand Hammer

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Owner of Occidental Petroleum, who built the water pipelines in Libya.

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Hooker Chemical Company

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Chemical company responsible for toxic pollution in Love Canal, New York.

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Furukawa Ichibei

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Japanese industrialist who owned the Ashio copper mine.

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Edward Jenner

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Developed vaccine for smallpox.

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Jonglei Canal

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Canal built in the Sudd swamp in Sudan to reduce evaporation loss and improve the water supply from the Nile River.

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John Lawes

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Invented the first artificial fertilizer.

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Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps

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Builder of the Suez Canal.

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Mario Molina

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Scientist who first proposed the depletion of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons.

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Kanichi Nakayasu

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Japanese industrial who proposed regulations on emissions to improve the air quality in Ube, Japan.

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Muammar el-Qaddafi

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Leader of Libya, who convinced Occidental Petroleum to build two water pipelines to provide fresh water to cities along the Libyan coast.

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John D. Rockefeller

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American industrialist and philanthropist who financed efforts to eliminate hookworm disease and eradicate malaria.

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Sherwood Rowland

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Scientist who, with Mario Molina, proposed the role of halocarbons in the thinning of the ozone layer.

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Shozo Tanaka

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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.

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Henry Wallace

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President, the first farmer to make hybrid corn a commercial success, the father of industrialized agriculture.

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James Young

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Developed process to refine crude oil.

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Virgin Lands Scheme

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Government-sponsored program in USSR to encourage immigration and development of agricultural lands on the Russian and Kazakh steppes.

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WHO

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World Health Organization

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