Physical Geography
Culture and History
India & Pakistan
Israel & Saudi Arabia
Jumble
100
South Asia is affected by these seasonal winds that bring moist air in the summer and dry air in the winter.
What are monsoons?
100
In the late 1700s most of South Asia was controlled by this European empire.
What is Great Britain?
100
This is the approximate population of India.
What is more than one billion?
100
Most people in Israel practice this religion.
What is Judaism?
100
The leader of al-Qaeda, and mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
200
This is the most valuable resource in Southwest Asia. It has allowed for a major increase in the standard of living.
What is petroleum (or oil)?
200
After World War II, the United Nations displaced Palestinians to set up this nation.
What is Israel?
200
The majority of Indians follow this religion.
What is Hinduism?
200
In Saudi Arabia, women must do this before going out in public.
What is cover themselves (follow hajib)?
200
In this war, Israel took the Sinai peninsula and destroyed the air forces of 5 arabic states in approximately 12 hours.
What is the Six-day War?
300
The destruction of this "sea" in Central Asia, due to irrigation and pollution, has been called one of the world's worst environmental disasters.
What is the Aral Sea?
300
Gandhi used this technique to help gain independence for India.
What is non-violent or passive resistance?
300
The majority of Pakistan's citizens practice this religion.
What is Islam?
300
This is the holy book of Islam, which is widely read in Saudi Arabia.
What is the Quran?
300
The traditions and history of these three religions converge in the city of Jerusalem.
What are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
400
These are the names of the most important mountain range and the two most important rivers in South Asia.
What are the Himalayas (mountains), and the Ganges and Indus (rivers)?
400
Pakistan and India have fought over this region.
What is Kashmir?
400
Pakistan's economy is based mostly on this.
What is agriculture?
400
Name two ways that Israelis use cooperation in their economy.
What are farming villages (moshavim) and cooperative settlements (kibbutzim)?
400
Three ways that the Saudi Arabian government improved their country with oil money.
What are building a school system, highways, airports, seaports, telephone system, and electric power grids?
500
Two words that best describe the climate of Southwest Asia.
What are hot and arid (or dry)?
500
Before the Taliban came to power, this group fought off the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Who were the mujahedin?
500
Relations between India and Pakistan are extremely tense because both countries have these.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
Saudi Arabia has this type of government.
What is an absolute monarchy?
500
Central Asia's three main physical features (mountains are not one of them)?
What are highlands, deserts, and steppes?
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