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This is made of soil deposited by rivers.
What is alluvial?
100
This mountain range was formed about 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
100
These two famous rivers are home to some of the most fertile soil in the world.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
It is the largest country in Central Asia.
What is Kazakhstan?
100
This is fresh water in the middle of a desert, usually available from an underground spring or well.
What is an oasis?
200
A plant that is raised to be sold for money on the world market.
What is a cash crop?
200
These two rivers begin high in the Himalayas.
What are Indus and the Ganges?
200
This is the most accurate description of the climates in Southwest Asia.
What is very dry or arid and semi-arid?
200
Farmers must do this in order to grow crops in Central Asia.
What is irrigating farmlands?
200
This is a measurement of income, education, health care or other quality of life.
What is a standard of living?
300
This is the vast, mostly level, treeless plaines that are covered in grass.
What are the steppes?
300
This is the single more important factor that affects the climate of South Asia.
What are the monsoons?
300
These are the two most important natural resources in Central Asia.
What are petroleum and water?
300
These are the two most important natural resources in Central Asia.
What are petroleum and natural gas?
300
This is a large, self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
400
This is a source of gasoline and other fuels.
What is petroleum?
400
The Himalayas have this impact on South Asian winters.
What is block the bitter cold cold air from reaching the region?
400
They are nomadic herders in Southwest Asia.
Who are bedouins?
400
This is the body of water that is drying up as a result of heavy irrigation.
What is the Aral Sea?
400
This is a type of farming that is raised to be used and consumed by the farmer and his/her family.
What is subsistence farming?
500
The supply of this cannot be replaced once it is used.
What is a non-renewable resource?
500
The river valleys of South Asia are more heavily populated than the mountain regions because of this.
What is fertile farmland?
500
Most of Southwest Asia's petroleum resources are located here.
What the Perisan Gulf?
500
Heavy use of pesticides on cotton crops caused this problem in Central Asia.
What is soil and water pollution?
500
This is a wind that changes direction with the change of season.
What is a monsoon?