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Vocabulary
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100
This can be used for bridges, irrigation pipes, and food
What is bamboo?
100
This mountain range is on the border of the Indian Subcontinent and Asia
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
100
You have too much of something
What is a surplus
100
This sea is affected by irrigation in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
What is the Aral Sea?
100
This land can produce crops
What is arable land?
200
This place recieves 60 inches of rain per year
What is a rainforest?
200
These two rivers flow through Iraq into the Persian Gulf
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
This is the quality of a person's life
What is standard of living?
200
This resource can be used for gasoline, heating oil, or energy
What is petroleum?
200
This brownish-yellow soil is found in the Huang He River and all over the North China Plain
What is loess?
300
These are three ways plants have adapted to climate in Southwest Asia
What is oily skin, grow fast, fully grown before the hottest time?
300
Southeast Asia is split into these two regions.
What is island and mainland?
300
This is a desert's fertile area, where water appears from an underground spring
What is an oasis?
300
This animal provides Himalayan farmers with milk, meat, and fur.
What is a yak?
300
This large piece of land is a major part of a continent
What is a subcontinent?
400
These are the two seasons of a monsoon
What is summer (wet) and winter (dry)
400
This mausoleum is a shrine to Emperor Jahan's 3rd wife, who died giving birth to their 14th child
What is the Taj Mahal?
400
This wind consistently blows in South and Southeast Asia
What is a monsoon?
400
This is grown specifically to make money
What is a cash crop?
400
This means crops can grow well; productive
What is fertile?
500
This region receives wet and warm monsoons year round
What is Southeast Asia?
500
This is the world's largest desert, nicknamed the Empty quarter
What is the Rub Al-Khali?
500
America calls this mature tropical storm a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
These three rivers in South Asia provide the region with hydroelectricity
What is the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra?
500
This is an oily substance made out of remains of ancient plants.
What is petroleum?