How long ago did the Indian subcontinent collide with Asia creating the S/SE Asia region?
What is roughly 40 million years ago?
100
When too many trees and forests are removed in a region it is known as...
Deforestation.
100
Name four popular cash crops in S/SE Asia.
What are cotton, rubber, rice, and tea leaves?
100
What are the names of the only two island countries in South Asia?
What are Sri Lanka and the Maldives?
100
The tallest Mountain in the world and roughly how tall it is.
What is Mount Everest at 29,029 feet tall?
200
How long is the Himalayan Mountain Range?
From east to west the range is around 1,550 miles wide.
200
Most of Island Southeast Asia is covered with these vegetation zones.
What are rainforests?
200
Malaysia is the world's leading exporter of this metal resource.
What is tin?
200
This major ocean lies to the East of South and Southeast Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
What is the region of underground volcanoes and earthquakes in the Southeast Asian region known as?
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
Name all 6 of the South Asian landlocked countries.
What are India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan?
300
During the monsoon season almost 2/3 of the land in this country floods. It causes people to build their houses on these.
What is Bangladesh and stilts?
300
What two gems are found in South Asian countries like India and Sri Lanka?
Rubies and Sapphires.
300
This country in South Asia is officially home to Mount Everest.
What is Nepal?
300
The two biggest and most important rivers in South Asia are...
What are the Ganges and the Indus Rivers
400
Name the five Mainland Southeast Asia countries.
What are Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand?
400
What can happen when heavy rains soak the foothills of the Himalayas?
What are dangerous mudslides?
400
Name at least four things S/SE Asians obtain from their forests.
What are bamboo and timber, oils, dyes, and chemicals, medicines, and nuts and spices.
400
This body of water is located to the East of the Indian Peninsula.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
400
The Himalayas have how many different peaks that are at least 24,000 feet or taller?
What is 30?
500
Name the 5 Island Southeast Asian Countries.
What are Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei?
500
Explain the differences between the summer and winter monsoons in South Asia.
Summer Monsoons: Winds blow from the southwest to the northeast. Bring a lot of moisture, last from May to September.
Winter Monsoons – Winds blow from the northeast to the southwest. Very little moisture, cold air is blocked by the Himalayas.
500
Name 7 mineral resources found in either South or Southeast Asia.
What are iron, coal, oil, limestone, tin, bauxite, and copper?
500
This island country is made of 13,500 different islands and has a population of 240 million people.
What is Indonesia?
500
How did the Himalaya Mountains form?
Millions of years ago the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia causing the land to wrinkle and buckle. The mountains have been growing ever since.