The fraction of the subcontinent that India takes up. (1/4, 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4?)
What is 3/4?
100
This is the approximate height of Mt. Everest.
What is 29,028 feet? (Must be close)
100
This is also known as the "Great Indian Desert."
What is the Thar Desert?
100
The three mountain ranges that make up the northern boundary of South Asia.
What are the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya?
100
This is India's capital city.
What is New Delhi?
200
The largest country on the Indian subcontinent.
What is India?
200
The two men who first climbed Mt. Everest.
Who are Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?
200
The three largest, and most important rivers in India.
What are the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Indus rivers.
200
This is the approximate number of islands in Maldives.
What is 1,200?
200
This city was once called Bombay.
What is Mumbai?
300
A large area of land that is part of a continent, but is considered a separate geographical unit.
What is a subcontinent?
300
A member of a Himalayan people, renowned for their skill in mountaineering.
What is a Sherpa?
300
The physical feature that lies between the Eastern and Western Ghats.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
300
This is a circular shaped island made of coral.
What is an atoll?
300
This was the capital of India when it was a colony of Great Britain.
What is Kolkata (Calcutta)?
400
The name of the tectonic plate that was connected to Africa, then eventually collided with Asia 50 million years ago. The collision formed the Himalaya Mountains.
What is the Indian Plate?
400
A deep, open crack, especially one in a glacier.
What is a crevasse?
400
The highest point in India. It is part of the Himalayas.
What is Mt. Kanchenjunga?
400
These are two things that pollute the Ganges River.
What are sewage, fertilizers, industrial pollutants, and ashes?
400
This is where "cyclones" occur.
What is the South Pacific and Indian oceans?
500
The "supercontinent" that existed 200 million years ago when all of the continents were connected.
What is Pangaea
500
This is the exact date that Mt. Everest was first climbed successfully.
What is May 29, 1953?
500
The surface area of India.
What is 1.3 million square miles.
500
Give three reasons why freshwater supplies are low in South Asia.
What are climate issues, irrigation methods, leaky pipes, and aquifer problems?