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1
What are the "seeds" of Pune made of?
Pizzabits
Rain
Silver Iodide
Corn
2
What do the people of Pune use to make rain?
A Hose
Chemicals
Flying Whales
Flood Water
3
Approximately how many people live in Kolkata?
12 Million
20 Million
14 Million
15 Million
4
Pune, India, has tried to increase its rainfall by
cloud seeding
creating a rain shadow
all of the above
using drip irrigation
5
Why is this city painted blue?
to win most beautiful city award
to keep crickets away
to keep mosquitos away
to make it colorful
6
How many miles is Pune from Mumbai?
20
They're the same place
115
2,000
7
Because Pune, India, lies in a rain shadow, its people have learned to live with
salty water
tropical cyclones
frequent droughts
widespread flooding
8
What is the lowest average temperature in Jodhpur?
50 degrees F
40 degrees F
70 degrees F
60 degrees F
9
What is the average rainfall in Jodhpur?
12 inches
20 inches
15 inches
14 inches
10
In what part of Bangladesh is Dhaka?
North
South
Southwest
Center
11
The term
monsoon
means
extreme weather
prolonged drought
seasonal rains
seasonal wind
12
What plants do people in Pune plant that can deal with drought conditions?
Rice
Sugar beets
Oats
Prickly pears
13
How does Kolkata find a way to deal with summer floods?
Sewers
Canals
Garbage Clogs
All of the above
14
Which
BEST
explains why cities on opposite sides of mountains get different amounts of rain?
the water cycle effect
orographic effect
altitude effect
cloud seeding effect
15
What month(s) have the most rain in Dhaka?
May and June
Winter months
Summer months
December
16
What crops suffer if the rain is late for the season in Dhaka?
Tea
All of the Above
Tobacco
Rice
17
What is Jodhpur's biome?
Tundra
Fresh Water
Desert
Grassland
18
How many inches of rain can monsoons bring to Kolkata?
80
50
67
10
19
What percent of people in Jodhpur are farmers?
20%
80%
75%
99.9%
20
What is one name Kolkata has been called?
City of Joy
Wet City
City of Rain
City of Death
21
Why does it flood so much in Kolkata?
All of the above
It is an ocean
It rains a lot
It hails a lot then melts
22
Approximately how many people live in Dhaka?
3 Million
23 Million
16 Million
13 Million
23
What type of irrigation system do farmers use to conserve water in Jodhpur?
Aqueducts
Drip Irrigation
Clouds
Canals
24
Approximately 80% of the people living around Jodhpur are farmers. However, oftentimes farming is difficult because of
a lack of fertilizer
flooding
its semiarid climate
its wet climate
25
What does the Dhaka economy depend on?
Oil Drilling
Building stilt houses
Trading
Agriculture
26
What is Pune's average total rainfall?
10 inches
29 inches
None
3 feet
27
Which South Asian city is known as one of the world's wettest capitals?
Lahore
Kathmandu
Dhaka
Kabul
