Individual Social Studies – Something New Under the Sun, Part I - Flashcards
FLASHCARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL STUDIES
Academic Junior High Decathlon 2014-2015
Based on information from
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the
Twentieth-Century World by J.R. McNeill
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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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UNFAO
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United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.
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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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U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970
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A law that put restrictions on car emission levels and created
emission standards for the auto industry.
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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
