This is the world's largest dam built for hydroelectric power, flood control, and river shipping.
What is Three Gorges Dam.
100
Define Karma.
What is what goes around comes around.
100
Identify China's solution to their overpopulation.
What is the One Child Policy.
100
Identify the ally USA fought with in the Vietnam War.
What is South Vietnam.
100
Why is the Ganges River important to Hindus?
What is considered to be sacred. They purify themselves in the river.
200
The famous 29,029 ft mountain located in Nepal.
What is Mt. Everest.
200
Identify the term that means your soul is reborn.
What is reincarnation.
200
Identify North Korea's economic and government system.
What is Communism.
200
Explain why the US got involved in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
What is to stop the spread of communism.
200
The crop most widely grown in Asia.
What is rice.
300
Identify a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, or other disturbance AND the country that recently suffered from this natural disaster.
What is tsunami and Japan.
300
Explain how Japan adapts to overcrowding.
What is building underground.
300
When a company chooses to have their goods and services made in another area.
What is Outsourcing.
300
Identify the pro-democracy rally that occurred in China in 1989, which resulted in the deaths of many citizens.
What is Tienanmen Square.
300
Describe Buddhist main belief.
What is the eight-fold path.
400
Phillipines, Japan, Indonesia are all considered this type of land form.
What is archipelago.
400
Identify who Gandhi was AND what he stood for.
What is a peaceful political activist who fought for India's independence.
400
Identify a current issue North Korea is facing.
What is starvation and famine (lack of food)
400
Identify 3 Communist countries in Asia.
What is China, North Korea, and Northern Vietnam.
400
Confucianism is based on this type of system.
What is a system of values to guide you through life.
500
Explain why monsoons are needed to assist farmers.
What is citizens rely on monsoons to grow crops.
500
DEFINE the caste system of Hinduism AND how it affects people's life.
What is a social hierarchy (ranking) system AND influences job, education, and how you are treated .
500
Identify 1 pros+1 cons of outsourcing on India & the US.
What is India= +more jobs, +education; -lose cultural traditions, -families spend less time together
US=+cheaper labor/goods; -loss of millions of jobs
500
Identify a country that has Capitalism AND describe this type of economic system .
What is 1. The US has this type of economic system.
2. People are paid based on what type of job they have.
3. You can own your own property.
4. You can choose your own job.
500
Identify why the US, China, and South Korea have had negotiations with North Korea.
What is to stop North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.