This is the moutain range with the highest peaks in South Asia.
What is the Himalya Mountains.
100
The region’s over 1.3 billion people make up more than __________ of the world’s population.
What is one-fifth.
100
This is how many major languages are spoken in South Asia.
What is 19.
100
Most people in South Asia are farmers and use a farming practice called __________.
What is subsistence farming.
100
The __________ became the major European power in South Asia after the late 1700s.
What is the British.
200
This is the most important river in South Asia.
What is the Ganges River.
200
South Asia's population density is almost _____ times the world average.
What is seven.
200
What are two of the three major religions in South Asia.
What are Hinduism and Islam. Will also take Buddhism.
200
Since the 1960s an effort called __________ has increased agricultural productivity through carefully managed irrigation, fertilizers, and high-yielding varieties of crops.
What is the green revolution.
200
The __________ is one of India’s two great epic poems.
What is the Ramanyana
300
India supplies 90 percent of the world’s __________, a layered rock used in making electrical equipment.
What is mica.
300
What are the areas called in South Asia where most people live and where life has changed little over hundres of years.
What is rural areas.
300
About half of India’s people speak __________, a language in the Indo-European language family.
What is Hindi.
300
Some of the richest mineral deposits in South Asia are found in the __________.
What is the Ganges Plain.
300
What are the three major river systems in South Asia.
What is the Brahmaputra, Indus, and Ganges.
400
Name two of the three bodies of water that South Asia touches.
What are the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Will also tak the Bay of Bengal.
400
__________ is India’s main port on the Arabian Sea as well as its largest city.
What is Mumbai (Bombay).
400
What are the two main causes that keep the mortality rate high in South Asia.
What is HIV/AIDS and scarcity of clean water.
400
South Asia has a history of __________, businesses that employ workers in their homes.
What is cottage industries.
400
Which are two of three threats to the wildlife of the region.
What is poaching and deforestation. Will also take irrigation.
500
This country __________ has banned timber exports to protect is rain forests since 1977.
What is Sri Lanka
500
The __________ has one of the highest concentrations of population in South Asia.
What is Ganges Plain
500
When Britain granted independence to British India, the land was divided into two countries called India and __________.
What is Pakistan.
500
Name 3 cash crops of the South Asia region.
What is tea, rubber, and cocunuts. Will also take cotton and jute.
500
Name 3 benefits to life that the major rivers of South Asia provide.
What is alluvial soil, drinking water, and transportation. Will also take hydroelectric power.