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14-3 Russia Environment InteractionVersion en ligne
GHW.12.1 Analyze global climate change forecasts for different parts of Earth and the implications of
these changes for humans.
GHW.12.2 Explain the concepts of linear and exponential growth, and apply these concepts to
geographical themes while analyzing the consequences of various human responses.
● Examples: The “doubling time” for the global population and the implications of this doubling in various world regions (1750–present), economic growth curves for various countries, the
implications for resource use and environmental pollution (present).
GHW.12.3 Evaluate the emerging trends toward reducing environmental footprints.
● Examples: renewable energy, carbon neutrality, pollution, plastics reduction, fresh
accessible water.
1
Ukraine has discovered thousands of incidents of ___ ___ since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.
2
Old people in Michurinskiy must drink ___ ___ water, if the river water gets too brown, but that is only if they have enough cash to do so.
3
For tens of thousands of years, no one can live in the area around Chernobyl, as it will not be ___ , even with the exploded reactor covered by a giant, metal barrier.
4
Very little of Russia's trash is _____ , and most is placed in a landfill, so they need to change this before the landfill runs out of room.
5
The radiation from Chernobyl's reactor was so powerful that it broke the _____ being used to clean up the mess . So they had to use people to do the cleaning.
6
While they were in existence, the ___ ___ made sure the drinking water in Michurinskiy was cleaner, but when the ___ ___ shut down, so did the water-cleaning process they provided.
7
The soviets competed with the U.S. during the cold war, so they did not want the U.S. to know about the Chernobyl accident, least they look incompetent. But then scientists in northern europe detected the ___ ___ .
8
Some citizens of Michurinskiy boil their brown river water, but others place the water in big bottles and let the ___ ___ , so they can drink the water on top.
9
Nuclear power plants produce less air pollution than coal power plants, but when the nuclear plants explode, like Chernobyl did, the radiation leakage requires that residents be _____ .
10
The Kuban river water goes straight into the pipes of the people living in Michurinskiy, and it is so dirty that the people cannot use it for ____ or _____ .
11
The Chernobyl power plant killed plant workers when it exploded, but it also injured the people who arrived afterward to put out the fire, infecting them with ___ ___ .
12
When the residents of Kiselyovsk complained about the air pollution and coal dust, the government of Russia attacked them verbally (their own government), while the government of _____ tried to help.
13
Just like the nuclear explosions that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl was so powerful that it tore apart _____ and _____ .
14
More people in Kiselyovsk die of ___ ___ , than people living in other parts of Russia, due to the coal dust that comes from a nearby mine.
15
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion could have been avoided, if the plant workers had not broken ___ ___ while performing regular checks on the reactor.
16
In Kiselyovsk, Seriberia, a nearby mine covers the houses, cars, and people in a fine layer of ___ ___ , making the whole town white and black.
17
When the ___ ___ ends, the U.S. has atomic bombs and, soon, nuclear energy, so the Soviet Union attempts to match the U.S. (compete with them during the cold war) and creates their own nuclear power plants, like Chernobyl.
18
Novoshapovo, the fumes from the local garbage dump are so powerful that children have ___ ___ in their chests, when the doctor listens to hem breathe.
19
A nuclear power plant in _____ , Ukraine exploded in the 1980s, causing local residents to flee the area before they developed diseases from the radiation.
20
One childhood resident of Novoshapovo had to move away when she grew up, because the odors from the _____ made her feel sick.
21
Very little of Russia's trash is _____ , and most is placed in a landfill, so they need to change this before the landfill runs out of room.
22
The landfill in Novoshapovo covers as much land as nearly 50 _____ _____ .
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