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  • extensive droughts have caused Washoe Lake (pictured) at Washoe Lake State Park in Nevada to dry up, most recently in 1992, 1994, and 2004?
  • during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts?
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    Question 1: [11][12][13] The west coast of ________, which gets much of its water from glaciers in mountain ranges such as the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, also would be affected.
    South AmericaNorth AmericaAmericas (terminology)Americas

    Question 2: reduced water content), and ridges of ________ form with behaviors which prevent or restrict the developing of thunderstorm activity or rainfall over one certain region.
    Synoptic scale meteorologyHigh-pressure areaTropical cycloneAnticyclone

    Question 3: ________ - an artificial technique to induce rainfall.
    ThunderstormPrecipitation (meteorology)Cloud seedingTropical cyclone

    Question 4: ________ drought is brought about when the water reserves available in sources such as aquifers, lakes and reservoirs fall below the statistical average.
    Atmospheric sciencesEnvironmental historyHydrologyOceanography

    Question 5: Human activity can directly trigger exacerbating factors such as overfarming, excessive irrigation,[30] ________, and erosion adversely impact the ability of the land to capture and hold water.
    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeDeforestationClimate change and agricultureKyoto Protocol

    Question 6: ________ recently said that nearly four million Kenyans urgently needed food.
    United NationsFood and Agriculture OrganizationWorld Food ProgrammeUniversal Postal Union

    Question 7: It concludes that the rainforest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or ________, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate.
    Atacama DesertSaharaAntarcticaDesert

    Question 8: ________ - Building canals or redirecting rivers as massive attempts at irrigation in drought-prone areas.
    MaltaUnited StatesAqueductRome

    Question 9: [3] Lengthy periods of drought have long been a key trigger for mass migration and played a key role in a number of ongoing migrations and other humanitarian crises in the ________ and the Sahel.
    Horn of AfricaArabian PeninsulaAsiaEast Africa

    Question 10: ________ - Collection and storage of rainwater from roofs or other suitable catchments.
    ChlorineWater purificationDrinking waterRainwater harvesting
















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