Vocabulary
People who share a common belief, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
A popular river in India that is sacred to Hindus and has a high population density.
What is the Ganges River?
This is an animistic religion that worships nature over spirits.
What is Shintoism?
Burning coal, deforestation, and automobile emissions cause what environmental issue in Asia?
What is air pollution?
The largest nation in Asia in both size and population.
What is China?
People who believe in multiple Gods.
What is Polytheism?
The longest river in Asia, located in China, which supplies millions of people with water for drinking, irrigation, and industrial uses.
What is the Yantze (Chang Jiang) River?
This belief system is considered a philosophy rather than a religion.
What is Confucianism?
Plant and wildlife species being killed off completely in the Yangtze River due to dumping of sewage and industrial/agriculture waste causes what environmental issue in China?
What is water pollution?
This country has the second largest population in the world and is a peninsula bordered by the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Arabian Sea.
What is India?
The belief in one God.
What is Monotheism?
The peninsula that includes both North Korea and South Korea.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
According to this belief system, giving up greed and greedy desires will lead to happiness and peace.
What is Buddhism?
True or False: Rapid Population growth is a cause to air and water pollution.
True
An island, directly across from the Korean Peninsula.
What is Japan?
People who share a common religion.
What is a religious group?
This is the largest mountain range in the world. It is also home to Mount Everest.
What is The Himalayan Mountains?
This religion is the only Polytheistic religion in SE Asia. They also believe how you live your life will dictate how you are reincarnated.
What is Hinduism?
This environmental issue is caused by monsoon patterns, natural disasters (hurricanes, tsunamis), land erosion and deforestation.
What is flooding?
A country located in Southeast Asia that is south of China and borders the South China Sea; this country is a part of the Indochina Peninsula.
What is Vietnam?
A piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by a body of water.
What is a Peninsula?
This river was given its name due to the Loas in the soil.
What is the Yellow River?
Which two Asian belief systems have no religious leaders and no one sacred text?
What is Hinduism and Buddhism?
What is a good title for the list below:
-Flooding
-Water pollution
-Air pollution
What is an environmental issue?
One of the poorest nations in the world, it occupies the Korean Peninsula and has a communist government.
What is North Korea?