East Asia
SE Asia and Oceania
Vocabulary
more Oceania
Leftovers
100
the river on which the Three Gorges Dam is built
What is the Chiang Jiang (Yangtze)
100
20,000 South pacific islands are called this
What is Oceania?
100
this is created by layering dirt and trash in low-lying areas
What is landfill
100
these imported rodents ate the grass and crops of Australian farmers
What are rabbits?
100
the religion of most people in India
What is Hindu?
200
these tropical storms can cause severe flooding in which people can drown
What is a typhoon?
200
this shows the formation of these types of islands
What are high islands?
200
this is an island group
What is an archipelago?
200
these islands form from coral reefs on eroded volcanoes
What are low islands?
200
the system of social classes in India
What is the caste system?
300
the waters of this river provide irrigation to crops that feed millions of people
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?
300
this is a polar desert
What is Antarctica?
300
this relies on hand tools and human labor to produce food crops
What is subsistence agriculture?
300
these seasonal winds bring wet and dry seasons to parts of SE Asia and N Australia
What are monsoons?
300
this is a more equitable distribution of land
What is land reform?
400
the red part of this
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
the US government tested nuclear bombs on this S. Pacific island
What is Bikini Atoll?
400
this is a windy, hot, salty place formed in a low lying area
What is a salt flat desert?
400
because it is part of the Ring of Fire, SE Asia has many of these
What are volcanoes?
400
this is a protest movement that doesn't use violence
What is non-violent resistance?
500
a wave caused by an underwater earthquake
What is a tsunami?
500
a ring-like group of islands is called this
What is an atoll?
500
this disaster occurred at a nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union
What is Chernobyl?
500
a protected site along the coast of NE Australia, this is the largest one of its kind in the world
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
500
this country is the leading producer of tea
What is Sri Lanka?