Climate Zones
Vegetation Zones
Ganges
Feni
Building the Dam
100
what climate zone has the most forested parts?
What is Tropical Wet
100
What fraction of original forest remain in South Asia?
What is 1/5
100
What does the Ganges river provide for Indians?
What is drinking, farming, and transportation
100
Where is the Feni river located?
What is Bangladesh
100
Why did bangladesh have enough people to build the dam?
What is a large unskilled population
200
What plain occupies much of South Asia?
What is Indo-Gangetic
200
What effect has cutting down forest caused?
What is erosion, flooding, climate changes, and lost wildlife habits.
200
In India, what is the Ganges known as?
What is Grangami or "Mother Ganges"
200
What do storm surges do to the surrounding areas?
What is makes swamps or low-lying areas
200
how long did it take to build a partial closure at the mouth?
What is six months
300
How many climates are in South Asia?
What is six
300
What climate zone is the biggest?
What is tropical wet
300
The Ganges is longer than the Indus river and Brahmaputra river. (true/false)
What is False
300
When did engineers start building a dam to help control the feni?
What is 1980
300
What was the closure made of?
What is bamboo and rocks
400
What is the driest part of South Asia?
What is Thar Desert
400
What is the result of deforestation?
What is a desert
400
What kind of diseases do the people who use the Ganges for drinking and bathing get?
What is stomach and intestinal problems
400
How wide is the mouth of the Feni river?
What is 1 mile
400
what is an estuary?
What is arm of the sea at the lower end of a river
500
What climate zone has the Himalayas?
What is highlands
500
What is the main desert plant life?
What is shrubs and grasses
500
Why is the Ganges river cause deadly diseases?
What is dead bodies and pollution
500
Why did it take so long to control the river?
What is limited financial/technological resources
500
what tested the dam?
What is storm surges
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