Vocab
This is a separate region of the Asian continent.
What is Subcontinent.
What river forms in Bangladesh to join the Ganges?
Brahmaputra
What is India's natural resource?
Coal deposits.
What are seasonal winds that bring intense rainfall during part of the year?
Monsoons
In Bangladesh, millions of wells have been poisoned by what?
Arsenic
This is an area where the river deposits sediment as it empties into a body of water.
Delta
What rivers are considered holy by Hindus?
Ganges and Indus rivers.
What is Sri Lanka's natural resource?
Precious or semi-precious stones.
When do Wet monsoons occur?
During the summer
What do more than 50 million people lack in areas of polluted water?
sanitation
Subsistence Farmers
Where does most of South Asia's water drain into?
Ganges and Indus rivers
What did India often suffer despite lots of farmland?
Famines
What months do summer monsoons happen?
May to October
500,000
What land is used for farming to feed nearly 1.5 billion people?
Arable
What does rainwater and snowmelt form?
South Asia's rivers
What did farmers start to use in 1966?
New seeds to grow wheat.
What months do dry monsoons happen?
November to April
What is it called when you make the environment dirty, foul, unclean, or contaminated?
Pollution
What is a bed or layer beneath the surface of the earth that contains water?
Aquifer
What does the Himalaya's separate?
South Asia from the rest of Asia. (China & India)
What other crops did farmers increase in production?Four answers
Rice
Fruits
Sugarcane
Vegetables
What happens if the wet monsoons do not produce enough rainfall? What can it lead to?
Drought
What is the percentage of rivers and lakes polluted in China?
70%