Land and Climate
The largest country in Asia
What is Russia?
Three animals that live in the many Asian biomes
What are giant pandas, red pandas, orangutans, Komodo dragons, Bengal tigers, slender loris, king cobra, and the Javan rhinoceros?
Pollution sources in Asia
What are burning fossil fuels, farms, toxic waste from factories, trash and deforestation?
People in Asia call this their New Year celebration
What is the Lunar New Year?
Leading export of Japan
What are cars?
Five landforms found in Asia
What are barren deserts, tropical islands, rugged mountain ranges, frozen tundras, and lush rain forests?
A common plant found in Asian rainforests that is also a food source for pandas
What is bamboo?
Countries that produce a great deal of solar power
What are India and China?
This was known as the "cradle of civilization" or the world's first civilization. (Hint: between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers)
What is Mesopotamia?
four products that Asia supplies to the rest of the world
What are Electronics (computers - China, circuits - South Korea), clothes, cars (Japan), oil (Russia), diamonds (India)?
The tallest mountain in Asia
What is Mount Everest?
A large reptile found in Indonesia is known as the world’s largest lizard
What is the Komodo dragon?
A country where most rivers and lakes are badly polluted
What is China?
One of the world's earliest writing systems that used a reed stylus pressed into wet clay.
What is cuneiform?
Six food items that are popular in Asia
What are rice, tofu, chickpeas, dates, honey, sushi?
Three major rivers in Asia
What are the Yangtze River, Ganges River, and Indus River?
An endangered large cat species that is native to Asia.
What is the Bengal Tiger?
What is rapid industrialization?
The second major ancient Asian civilization that was located in present-day Pakistan and northwestern India
What is the Indus Valley Civilization or the Harappans?
An Asian country that is a monarchy (ruled by a king born into a royal family).
What is Saudi Arabia?
Lake in Asia is ten times saltier than the ocean
What is the Dead Sea?
A snake that is considered one of the deadliest in Asia
What is the King Cobra?
People in Asia use this to filter out pollution as they breathe.
What is a mask?
Founder of the Persian Empire
Who was Cyrus the Great?
Democratic nations that have a monarchy too (but the royals don't have much real power in government).
What are Japan and Thailand?