Monsoon Asia
Mental Map
Soutwest/Central Asia
Breadwinner
Europe
100
Ruled China from 1949- 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE all share a coastline on this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
100
Two most valuable resources found in Southwest Asia.
What are oil and natural gas?
100
Breadwinner setting- both time and place.
What is Kabul, Afghanistan in the late 1990's?
100
Created by everyday activities such as power generation and car exhaust.
What is general pollution?
200
A place of great cultural or natural value to the world.
What is a World Heritage Site?
200
The city of Paris, France is located on this river.
What is the Seine River?
200
Country with the largest crude oil reserves in Southwest Asia.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
Country that invaded and ruled Afghanistan from 1979-1989.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
Occurs when total fertility rates don't meet replacement rates.
What is negative population growth?
300
The speed at which a population is growing.
What is rate of natural increase?
300
Spain and Portugal are both located on this landform.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
Country with the highest per capita GDP in Southwest Asia.
What is Qatar?
300
Name three of the five major themes of the Breadwinner novel.
What are hope, sacrifice, family, survival, and repression of women?
300
A fixed amount of money paid to a retired person by a government or former employer.
What is a pension?
400
First two men to successfully summit Mount Everest (last names are fine).
Who are Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?
400
Three countries that border Afghanistan.
What are Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, or China?
400
The Islamic place of worship.
What is a mosque?
400
Shauzia's ultimate destination upon leaving Afghanistan.
What is France?
400
Country that was hardest hit by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
What is Belarus?
500
The height of Mount Everest (within 1000 ft.).
What is 29,035 feet?
500
Largest archipelago country in Monsoon Asia (and the world).
What is Indonesia?
500
The most holy Islamic city that all Muslims are expected to visit at least once in their lifetime.
What is Mecca, Saudi Arabia?
500
One of the two major languages spoken in Afghanistan.
What are Pashtu or Dari?
500
Home country of Boston Bruin Denis Seidenberg.
What is Germany?
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