Vocabulary
Physical Geography of South Asia (661)
Comparing River Systems
Past Assignments
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100
This is a large landmass that is part of a continent yet is considered a separate region.
What is a subcontinent?
100
This is the body of water that is directly to the east of the Eastern Ghats.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
100
This river runs throughout Pakistan.
What is the Indus River?
100
This is the population of the world (round to the nearest billion).
What is 7 billion?
100
This is the source of all bad things in Mr. Russell's room.
What is the Evil Bunny?
200
A seasonal wind system that produces wet and dry seasons.
What is a monsoon?
200
This mountain range is home to Mount Everest.
What is the Himalayas?
200
This river runs southeast mostly through India.
What is the Ganges River?
200
This country produces more oil than any other country in the world.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
This is the name of Mr. Russell's wife.
What is Chelsea?
300
This is a severe shortage of food that causes widespread hunger.
What is a famine?
300
This is the only ocean that India borders.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
This river ends up in the Arabian Sea
What is the Indus River?
300
Dangers of this include flooding, death by electrocution and land slides
What is a monsoon?
300
This is the term for people who are watching a situation and have the power to do the right or wrong thing.
What is a bystander?
400
This is a series of giant ocean waves that wash over coastal areas.
What is a tsunami?
400
This is the only major desert in South Asia.
What is the Thar Desert?
400
This river is 1,560 miles long.
What is the Ganges River?
400
This was the name given to the trade of cinnamon, pepper and other seasonings.
What is the spice trade?
400
QOTD is the abbreviation for these four words.
What is Question Of The Day?
500
This is an area of high land that stretches between the Western and Eastern Ghats.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
500
This is the delta that forms immediately to the south of Bangladesh.
What is the Ganges Delta?
500
Rivers are important for these two reasons.
What is water source, irrigation source for farming, transportation of people and goods, fishing?
500
This is the name of the town in the Ukraine that had a nuclear power plant meltdown.
What is Chernobyl?
500
This individual won her "war" for more oil.
Who is Lanajia?
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