Capitals
Capital of Iran
What is Tehran
Fertile place in a dry area where water is found?
What is oases
a giant wave caused by an earthquake volcano or landslide
What is a tsunami
In the Himalayas mountain over 29,000 ft what mountain is it?
Mt. Everest
What is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile
time when people are starving because of lack of food
what is famines
Capital of Egypt
What is Cairo?
Narrow passage of water that connects larger bodies of water
What is a straight
Seasonal winds that bring intense rainfall during part of the year
What is monsoons?
Southwest Asia and North Africa possess an important source of energy and wealth what is it?
What is oil
What sea is located between Vietnam and the Phillippnes?
South China Sea
What is the time period called when humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants
What is the Agricultural Revolution
Capital of India
What is New Delhi
Underground tunnels, to carry mountain waters to dry plains. (located in Iran)
What is a qanats (Kuh Notz)
desert area that is very dry, with extremely high daytime temperatures
What is arid
East Africa is easy to spot on a map it is shaped like?
what is Rhinoceros Horn
Famous River in India has special significance to the Hindu religion
what is Ganges
when you grow food for your family and nothing to sell to anyone else what is this called?
What is subsistence farming
Capital of Russia
What is Moscow
low-lying land next to rivers formed by sediment deposited by flooding
What is a floodplain?
forest with warm temperatures, plentiful rain, high humidity, and thick vegetation
what is rain forest
what animal is a vital part of African wildlife? (we talked about this)
What is big cats, (lions, cheetahs and leopards)
Located on the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this sea has been shrinking due to irrigation.
What is Aral Sea
Farmers started using new seeds to grow wheat. Increased crop yield and wheat and rice production during the late 60's. What is this Revolution called?
What is the Green Revolution
Capital of Japan
What is Tokyo
the process of redirecting water to crops using channels and ditches
what is irrigation
This desert is located in Northern Africa and is one of top three largest deserts in the world
What is Sahara
The Burj Khalifa stands 2,716.5 feet high and is the tallest building in the world. Where is it located?
What is Dubai
What sea is located between Saudi Arabia and Egypt
What is the The Red Sea?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a wealth of natural resources name one...
what is copper, forests, diamonds, and the Congo River itself.
Capital of China
What is Beijing?
land between the river, which is a flat area of land located next to a stream or river that floods
what is alluvial plain?
This desert is located on Pakistani and Indian border, is also known as the Great Indian Desert
What is Thar?
Mt Everest is the tallest mountain in the world and is located in what mountain range? Is in between what countries?
What is Himalaya and is located between Nepal and Tibet
what major waterway is located in Central Africa? Several large rivers flow into it and it then flows into the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Congo River
What are some negative effects of the Green Revolution?
what is more fertilizer, irrigation and pesticides which all cost more money so benefit was to the wealthy farmer
and
All of the fertilizer and pesticides caused pollution
What is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
Electricity produced by a water source such as a river
what is hydroelectric power?
What is a Tangram?
What is an ancient chinese puzzle
Island built out of sand in Dubai
Hint has a specific shape of a tree
What is the island name or the tree?
What is Palm Jumeirah?
or what is Palm Tree?
This river flows along the border of Russia and Manchuria in China. It flows into the Sea of Japan
What is Amur?
China primarily produces ?
What is rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed corn and soybeans
Capital of Iraq
What is Baghdad
barrier to protect a harbor
what is breakwaters?
In China Emperor of Qin was buried in 210 BC, a replica of his army was buried with him it included 8099 ? sculpted from ?
What is? Soliders and Terra Cotta
Mountains are located in Iran at the southern end of the Caspian Sea
What is Elburz
the yellow river is the second largest river in China and one of the longest river system in the world what does the water carry that causes it to be yellow?
What is Silt?
List an example of sustainable farming.
manure instead of fertilizer
crop rotation
organic seeds- non gmo