Question

As the Aral Sea has dried up, fisheries and the communities that depended on them collapsed. The increasingly salty water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides. The blowing dust from the exposed lakebed, contaminated with agricultural chemicals, became a public health hazard. The salty dust blew off the lakebed and settled onto fields, degrading the soil. Croplands had to be flushed with larger and larger volumes of river water.

What problems did people face as the Aral Sea dried up? Pick 2

Responses

With out the Aral Sea companies collapsed

The people who lived by the Aral sea cleaned the sea

Water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides

The salty dust blew all the way to Russia

Answer 1

The two problems that people faced as the Aral Sea dried up are:

1. Water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides.
2. The salty dust blew all the way to Russia.