The specific mountain range and most dramatic landform on the southwestern border of China.
What is the Himalaya Mountain Range?
100
The physical feature that best describes the landform of both North and South Korea.
What is a peninsula?
100
The natural disaster that is common to Southwest and Central Asia due to how climate affects the land.
What is drought?
100
The plant found in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, that grows unbelievably fast and can stand seasonal differences.
What is bamboo?
100
The term used to describe growing more than one crop on a single land area in the same year; this system is used mainly in East Asia.
What is double-cropping?
200
The term that best describes Japan as a physical feature.
What is an archipelago (collection of islands)?
200
The term used to describe a large landmass that is a major part of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
200
The single most important factor, determined by wind, in the climate of South Asia.
What are the monsoons?
200
The type of natural vegetation that can be found in Southeast Asia due to the climate.
What is the rainforest?
200
The term used to describe a crop that is raised to be sold for money on the world market.
What is a cash-crop?
300
The term used to describe the region of volcanoes and earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Ring of Fire?
300
Name one of two important rivers in India...one flows in an arc through northern India and one gave India its name.
What is the Indus or the Ganges?
300
Violent storms that develop in the Pacific Ocean.
What are typhoons?
300
Due to the dry climate, this must often be done to the land in Southwest and Central Asia in order to grow crops.
What is irrigation?
300
The non-renewable resource that is found in many parts of the Southwest region of Asia.
What is petroleum/oil?
400
The two types of physical features within Southwest Asia that often serve as borders to separate countries.
What are mountains and deserts?
400
Name two of four seas that can be found in the Southwest and Central regions of Asia.
What is the Red Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea or the Mediterranean Sea?
400
The climate region found in East Asia characterized by hot summers and cool winters.
What is a humid subtropical climate?
400
In southern China, what crop is usually grown due to the warmer climate?
What is rice?
400
The term used to describe running water that generates electricity; used often in East Asia.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
Name two of three rivers in Southwest and Central Asia that contain some of the world's most fertile soil.
What are the Tigris, Euphrates and/or Ural Rivers?
500
There are two important rivers in China. One is used to move cargo and one is where many people live for the fertile land. Name one of the two and tell its purpose.
What is the Chang Jiang (move cargo) or the Huang He/Yellow Sea (fertile land)?
500
The specific name of the climate region that covers most of Southwest and Central Asia...it means 'dry'.
What is arid?
500
Monsoons are caused by changes in the ________ and provide _________ for over half the world's population.
What are 'wind' and 'water'?
500
The term used to describe the method used often in East Asia of 'farming in the sea'.