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South Asia Review Game Chs H25, T27, T28
Mount Everest is in the
Pakistan has a fertile river vally called the
South Asia Review Game Chs H25, T27, T28
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Pakistan has a fertile river vally called the
Arabian Sea
Indus River Valley
Fertile Crescent
Hindu Kush
2
Mount Everest is in the
Eastern Gahts
Hindu Kush
Himalayas
Western Ghats
3
A mountain slope facing downwind gets ________________ rain.
much
acid
no
far less
4
Rising warm air creates areas of
high pressure
upwind
low pressure
moist air
5
Indian troops revolted against British rule in the
1600s
1700s
1900s
1800s
6
People who live in a rain shadow have to adapt to a life with
little rain
lots of rain
orographic effect
no rain
7
The people of ____________ have raised their homes on stilts to adapt to the floods.
Calcutta
Pune
Dhaka
Jodhpur
8
Calcutta, India has modern skyscrapers that tower over the
Ganges River
Euphrates River
Indus River
Hooghly River
9
The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country is
orographic effect
comfort zone
standard of living
cost of living
10
In general, Americans working for foreign companies make ________ than US company workers.
no clue
the same
less
more
11
The main hub city for IT centers is
New Delhi
Bangalore
Mumbai
Calcutta
12
The major religion in Pakistan is
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
13
The average cost of basic necessities in a particular place or country is
allowance
standard of living
comparative advantage
cost of living
14
The first urban civilization on the subcontinent was the
Harappan
Aryan
Mauryan
Mughal
15
Pune, India sits
upwind
in a rain shadow
east of the Eastern Ghats
west of the Western Ghats
16
Between Mumbai and Pune lies the
Hindu Kush
Himalayas
Western Ghats
Eastern Ghats
17
A subcontinent is
larger than a continent
under a continent
smaller than a continent
over a continent
18
Each year about ______ inches of rain falls in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
60
80
40
20
19
A territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land is called a
colony
territory
dynasty
city-state
20
To hire someone outside a company to do work that was once done inside the company is
comparative advantage
resourcefulness
human resources
outsourcing
21
Falling cool air creates areas of
rain shadow
high pressure
cool climate
low pressure
22
Because Pune, India lies in a rain shadow, people have learned to deal with
frequent droughts
water salinization
tropical cyclones
widespread flooding
23
Which comparative advantage attracts foreign companies to the US
many linguistic groups
low living costs
highly educated workers
long life expectancy
24
A landform at the mouth of a river fdreated by sediment deposits is a
sea
delta
bay
source
25
Samas is
rohini
wild grass
wild pigs
runoff water
26
What crop thrives in Pune, India?
sugar cane
tea
tobacco
sugar beets
27
Foreign companies that hire American workers can make up for the jobs that were lost to
Y2K
insourcing
Apple
outsourcing
28
Tamil and Sinhalese are the two largest ethnic groups in
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
Nepal
29
The division of a country by the British based on religion was the
divorce
separation
partition
green revolution
30
What is NOT a benefit of the floods in Calcutta, India?
relief from summer heat
overflowing canals
more rickshaw business
water for farmland
31
Jodhpur, India has earned the nickname
Blue City
Desert Edge
Eastern Thar
Mosquito Heaven
32
Iqbal was passionate about ending
education
world hunger
sentences with periods
child labor
33
Mumbai used to be known as
Delhi
Calcutta
Bombay
New Delhi
34
A seasonal wind that brings moist or dry air to an area is a
flood
monsoon
typhoon
rain shadow
35
A mountain slope against the monsoon winds gets __________ rain.
much
little
some
no
36
The weight of the atmosphere weighing down on any point of the surface of Earth is
monsoon
rain shadow
atmospheric pressure
orographic effect
37
Cool, moist air from the __________________ creates the summer monsoons.
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
38
What divides Indian society by a person's birt or occupation?
metric system
nirvana
caste system
social pyramid
39
The Ganges River flows across India in the
east
west
north
south
40
Malala is from
India
Pakistan
Nepal
Afghanistan
41
There are ______ time zones around the world.
20
24
36
12
42
The highest population density in India can be found in the
east
north
west
south
43
A time when hot, dry winds swirl dust across the parched plains is
climate
Indra
monsoon
rohini
44
Summer monsoons bring much needed rain to Jodhpur
June-September
July-August
August-September
June-August
45
The most important leader of the Indian independence movement was
Mother Teresa
Diwali
Nelson Mandella
Mohandas Gandhi
46
One of the world's most densely populated countries is
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Nepal
47
India and Pakistan have clashed over the territory of
Kathmandu
Kashmir
Kasbah
Kardashian
48
The major religion in Sri Lanka and Bhutan is
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
49
Indian language and culture was greatly influenced by the
Sherpas
Aryans
Tamil
Sinhalese
50
What season do the yearly storms reach India?
spring
summer
winter
autumn