Vocabulary
A large distinct landmass that is joined to a continent.
A. What is a partition
B. What is a subcontinent
c. What is a monsoon
A. What is a partition
The principle river of India, which is considered holy by the Hindus.
A. What is the Nile River
B. What is the Indus River
C. What is the Ganges
C. What is the Ganges
The most common religion in India
A. What is Indianism
B. What is Islam
C. What is Hinduism
C. What is Hinduism
When the Indian subcontinent received its independence, the land was divided into these two countries.
A. What are India and Pakistan
B. What are Bangladesh and Pakistan
C. What are Nepal and China
A. What are India and Pakistan
The illegal killing of animals
A. What is poaching
B. What is darting
c. What is animal parades
A. What is poaching
Seasonal wind that dominates the climate of South Asia
A. What are monsoons
A. What are monsoons
B. What is a snowstorm
C. What is a Earthquake
The highest peak in the Himalayas
A. What is Mt. Everest
B. What is Mt. Trash more
C. What is Mt. Pinnacle Peak
A. What is Mt. Everest
This social stratification system divides people into life-long social positions at birth.
A. What is the caste system
B. What is the Buddhist
C. What is religious differences
A. What is the caste system
India and Pakistan received their independence from this colonial power.
A. What is Indonesia
B. What is Africa
C. What is Great Britain
C. What is Great Britain
True or False: India is the most populated country in the world
False
Plant materials and animal dung product that is burned as an energy source
A. What is a deforestation
B. What is Nomad
C. What is biomass
C. What is biomass
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the continent of Asia by the ________________ Mountain Range.
A.What is the Himalayas
B. What is the Hindu Kush
C. What is the Ural
A. What is the Himalayas
The worship of many gods.
A. monotheism
B. polytheism
C. atheism
B. polytheism
This country was created when it received its independence from Pakistan in 1971.
A. What is Bangladesh
B. What is India
C. What is Mongolia
A. What is Bangladesh
Why is there a shortage of drinking water in S. Asia?
A. What is the Radiation leaking into rivers
B. What is there are no water sources in this part of the world
C. What is the dumping of chemicals and sewage into rivers
C. What is the dumping of chemicals and sewage into rivers
A chain of closely linked metropolitan areas
A. What is States
B. What is a mega continent
C. What is Subcontinent
C. What is Subcontinent
Large desert that spans portions of India and Pakistan
A. What is the Gobi Desert
B. What is the Thar Desert
C. What is the Sahara Desert
B. What is the Thar Desert
The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire.
A. Sikhism
B. Buddhism
C. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
How does providing microcredit enable the poor to escape poverty?
A. Encourages foreign banks to invest in people.
B. Entrepreneurs create new businesses and wealth.
C. It provides the natural resources needed.
B. Entrepreneurs create new businesses and wealth.
A program to increase crop yields in developing countries using carefully managed irrigation, fertilizers, and high-yield crops.
A. What is the Green Trade
B. What s the Crop Revolution
C. What is the Green Revolution
What is the Green Revolution
The theory that explains the process that formed the continents and explains why the earth’s crust shifts.
A. plate tectonics
B. erosion
C. weathering
A. plate tectonics
Which of the following is a main way that people use the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra Rivers?
A. What is for drinking
B. What is for fishing
C. What is for animals
D. What is for transportation
D. What is for transportation
Siddhārtha Gautama accepted the idea of reincarnation, but he rejected
a. the idea that life is full of suffering.
b. the concept that it is possible to achieve nirvana.
c. the division of human beings into rigidly defined castes.
c. the division of human beings into rigidly defined castes.
Which religions are NOT practiced much in South Asia? (select 2 choices)
A. Buddhism
B. Christianity
C. Hinduism
D. Judaism
Islam
B. Christianity and D. Judaism
What led to the conflict over Kashmir between India and Pakistan?
A. What is the partition of 1947
B. What is the Indians wanting to Pakistanis to practice Christianity
C. What is Pakistan attacking India over food and water resources
What is the partition of 1947