USAID Environmental Restoration for the Aral Sea Quiz

What led to the desiccation of the Aral Sea?

What is the current status of the eastern basin of the Aral Sea?

What is the Aralkum Desert known as?

What were the unsustainable water management practices in the region primarily driven by?

What was the original size of the Aral Sea before its significant shrinkage?

What was the rank of the Aral Sea in terms of size before it started shrinking?

Which rivers were diverted for irrigation projects, leading to the shrinkage of the Aral Sea?

What transformation did the unsustainable water management practices cause in the landscape and ecosystem?

What did satellite images from NASA in 2014 reveal about the eastern basin of the Aral Sea?

What is the Aral Sea disaster known as?

The unsustainable water management practices in the region, primarily driven by the Soviet Union's cotton production goals, led to the desiccation of the Aral Sea.
The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake, was reduced to a residual lake, with the eastern basin completely drying up.

The eastern basin of the Aral Sea is completely dry and has become the Aralkum Desert, also known as the "new desert".
Satellite images from NASA in 2014 revealed that the eastern basin had completely dried up.

The Aral Sea originally covered an area of around 68,000 square kilometers, ranking as the world's fourth-largest lake by size before its significant shrinkage.

The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers were diverted for irrigation projects, leading to the shrinkage of the Aral Sea.

The unsustainable water management practices caused a transformation in the landscape and ecosystem, resulting in the loss of biodiversity and habitat destruction.
The Aral Sea disaster is known as one of the worst environmental disasters in the world.