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Cities
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Geography
Human Impact
100
This is the cause of unsanitary cities and lots of famine and disease in South Asia.
What is Over Population?
100
This is a place with bad living conditions, poor sanitation, and unclean housing.
What is a Slum?
100
This Religon makes up 30% of the population & it began with Muslim traders in AD 700's.
What is Islam?
100
This is the longest, most polluted river in India.
What is the Ganges river.
100
This is the man who was an independent leader, stood for civil disobedence, & was a layer.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
200
A push pull factor is what?
What is why people leave the city and why people come to the city?
200
One solution for Pakistan's problem of over crowding is building cities next to the existing cities.
What are secondary cities.
200
These are the people at the bottom of the caste system that dry out animal skins and beg for food.
What are the "Untouchables".
200
This is a seasonal wind that brings intense rainfall during part of the year.
What is a Monsoon?
200
Colonialism did what to India's growth.
What is limited growth.
300
This is a bed or layer beneath earth that contain water.
What is an Aquifer?
300
This is the precentage of people who can read and write.
What is literacy rate?
300
This religion has the most amount of followers in South Asia.
What is Hinduism?
300
This is the country that used to be part of Pakistan but separated later.
What is Kashmir?
300
This is the rule that the British put over India after the Indian rallied for independence.
What is raj?
400
This is an area where a river deposits sediment as it empties into a body of water.
What is a Delta?
400
Name 2 pull factors that move people to India.
What is Job opportunities and better Education?
400
The reddish brown dye that people use to decorate their skin for special occasions.
What is Henna?
400
This is the part of India that is very mountainous.
What is Northern India?
400
The Hindus formed this in 1885.
What is the Indian National Congress (INC)?
500
This is the protection of the enviroment.
What is conservation?
500
Since the independence, India's population have done this.
What is grown in population?
500
This is a tradional Indian garment worn by women.
What is a Sari?
500
Bollywood is located near which city.
What is Bombay/ Mumbai.
500
Why is the Ganges river polluted?
What is the dumping of sewage, industries dumping poison, and people throwing offering into the river.