This largest country of the region is also the most populated.
What is China?
100
The longest river in India, considered sacred by Hindus.
What is the Ganges?
100
Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
What is mainland?
100
Dry
What is arid?
100
The neutral zone between North and South Korea.
What is the DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
200
The physical feature that forces millions of people to crowd Japan's small plains.
What is Mountains?
200
The Ganges Rivers begins in this high elevation region and empties into the Bay of Bengal.
What is the Himalayas?
200
The islands of SE Asia lie within this region of frequent plate movement that causes volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Somewhat dry.
What is semi-arid.
200
Mongolia and western China are too far from large bodies of water to be impacted by these.
What are monsoons?
300
The type of portable houses nomadic herders of Mongolia live in.
What is a ger or yurt?
300
The Indus River begins in this high elevation region and empties in to the Arabian Sea.
What is the Plateau of Tibet?
300
This destructive physical feature causes the islands of SE Asia to have very fertile soil.
What is volcanoes?
300
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Nomads often move to different portions of this, a dry grassland.
What is a steppe?
300
Mongolia's capital, home to half the country's population due to its less harsh climate.
What is Ulaanbatar?
400
South Korea has more of this type of land which helps support more than double the population of North Korea.
What is arable land?
400
Residents are never without their umbrella from May to October during this season.
What is WET monsoon season?
400
This river that flows through mainland SE Asia is an important trade route.
What is the Mekong?
400
Mount Everest has the tallest ________ in all the world.
What is elevation?
400
December 26, 2004 - a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a massive one of these, that killed over 100,000 people.
What is a tsunami?
500
This area between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers is densely populated due to the fertile soil and access to the coast.
What is the North China Plain?
500
Dry air blowing south from this region causes less rain to fall between November and April.
What is the Himalayas?
500
This most densely populated island of Indonesia experienced a volcanic eruption on Feburary 14, 2014 covering the island in ash and forcing the evacuation of 76,000 people.
What is Java?
500
The people of Southeast Asia depend on this economic activity due to the many bodies of water bordering/surrounding the region.
What is subsistence fishing?
500
The current leader of North Korea that controls almost every aspect of North Korean life.