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100
This country has the largest population in the world.
What is China?
100
A river that flows through India and Pakistan.
What is the Indus River?
100
The world's highest and youngest mountain range.
What are the Himalayans?
100
Hundreds of gallons of this are poured into the Ganges daily.
What is sewage and/or trash?
100
Seasonal wind bringing heavy rainfall
What is a monsoon?
200
This country has the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east.
What is India?
200
A river named for a Hindu goddess.
What is the Ganges River?
200
Tallest mountain in the world.
What is Ms. Everest?
200
This has soared in India over the last century and had added to the pollution problem in this country.
What is the population?
200
These often leads to death and destruction.
What is flooding?
300
The US was involved in WWII with this island nation.
What is Japan?
300
Longest river in China.
What is the Yangtze River?
300
This large sandy desert is located between two mountain ranges.
What is the Taklimakan Desert?
300
These are unfit to eat because of pollution in the Yangtze.
What are fish?
300
Flooding from this river has caused more deaths than any other river in the world.
What is the Yellow (Huang He) River?
400
This S-shaped country has a long coastline on the South China Sea.
What is Vietnam?
400
A river known as "China's Sorrow"
What is the Yellow River?
400
This desert is the largest in Asia and was crossed by Marco Polo in the 13th century.
What is the Gobi Desert?
400
Many Chinese use this as fuel to heat their homes.
What is coal?
400
This builds up so that the river is higher than the surrounding plains.
What is silt?
500
This country is made up of thousands of island and has the largest Muslim population in the world.
What is Indonesia?
500
A river that flows from China to Vietnam.
What is the Mekong River?
500
A peninsula that juts out from China and was divided into two countries in the mid 20th century.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
500
These are the two main reasons for increased air pollution in China.
What are industry and automobiles?
500
It takes must less water to cause a flood because of these two practices.
What is draining wetlands and deforestation (cutting down trees)?