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ESOL 94 – Ford Cloze Quiz 1: The Aral Sea Name: Directions: Fill in the 15 blanks ______ in the text using the correct words from the following list. Each word should be used. area linked ultimately economic region chemical consequences region environmentally accumulation methods ultimately impact accumulation chemical The ____________ of attempts at ____________ development on the ecology of the Aral Sea ____________, however, goes beyond the immediate ____________ of falling water levels. Inefficient ____________ of irrigation allow much of the water to evaporate, causing soil salinization, the ____________ of crop-damaging salts in the soil. Farmers use more water to wash these salts out of the soil; the salts then enter the rivers, ____________ increasing the salinization of areas downstream and the Aral Sea itself. Other short-sighted agricultural practices in the irrigated land include the extensive use of artificial fertilizers and ____________ pesticides to support production of the two main crops, rice and cotton. As a result, the water that ____________ drains back into the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya from the fields carries high concentrations of phosphates and nitrates, as well as ____________ pesticides. The ____________ of these toxic chemicals in the rivers is now contaminating local supplies of drinking water. As a result, in the years since 1975, people living in the ____________ have increasingly suffered from a number of serious health problems. As is often the case with ____________ ____________ illness, infants and children are the most vulnerable. For example, in Karakalpakia, now the ____________ of Uzbekistan closest to the Aral Sea, the 1989 mortality rate for children was among the highest in the world.