Unit 16
This is the main access route through the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan:
What is the Kyber Pass?
This is the largest landlocked country in the world.
What is Kazakhstan?
This utensil used in the typical Japanese tea ceremony is often passed down generation to generation
What is a teapot?
Millions of people travel to their family home to celebrate this holiday in China.
What is the Chinese New Year?
Eighty percent of tsunamis are caused by:
What are earthquakes?
There are 3,000 castes in the caste system in this country:
What is India?
The Soviets used an island in this sea as a testing site for biological weapons
What is the Aral Sea?
Korea's nickname in the 1700s
What is the Hermit Kingdom?
China has put just over 1 million Uyghurs into this:
What are re-education camps?
The standard modern territorial limit that countries can claim:
What is 12 Nautical miles?
Nepal lies between these two powerful countries:
What are China and India?
Almost all Turkic people share this religious heritage
What is Islam?
The difference in the forms of government of North Korea and South Korea
What is South Korea is a democracy and North Korea is a communist dictatorship?
The ethnic group that makes up over 90% of China’s population.
What are the Han?
Vietnam in located on this peninsula:
What is Indochina?
This was the first New Zealander to successfully climb Mt. Everest:
Who was Edmond Hillary?
Two economically unhealthy major sources of income in Tajikistan are the illegal drug trade and this:
What is the remittance from citizens working abroad?
The most important geographic feature of the Korean peninsula.
What is the 38th parallel?
China’s plan to build roads, ports, and other infrastructure in many places around the world is called:
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
The name of the Pacific rim where the majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur:
What is the Ring of Fire?
This group established a repressive regime in Afghanistan in 1996
Who are the Seleucids?
This was still burning 50 years later as a result of Soviet drilling.
What is the Darvaza Gas Crater?
Two opposing parties that vied for power in China in the early 1900s were the Kuomintang or Nationalists and the ____________.
What is the Communist Party?
This person created the SeaLand Company to transport goods by water:
Who is Malcom McLean?
The the largest single ethnic and language group in the Philippines:
Who is Tagalog?