What countries make up South Asia Pakistan India

What countries make up South Asia? Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives READY? What was a constant threat during the Cold War? What was it all about anyway? Tension between the US and USSR over political and economic ideas. Always the threat of nuclear war.

What do these things have in common…… Kurds Cherokees Palestinians North Africa Indonesia Bangladesh Vietnam War Korean War Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Cyclone Hurricane Typhoon Indus Ganges Yellow Tigris Euphrates Pakistan Lebanon Syria Jordan Israel Kim Jong Il Joseph Stalin Pol Pot Tsar Nicholas Mao Zedong Forestry Mining Fishing Agriculture North Atlantic Drift Himalayas Equator Germany Rwanda Cambodia Apartheid Jim Crow Strait of Malacca Strait of Hormuz Suez Canal Panama Canal Italy Russia Japan Tiananmen Square Bloody Sunday Fall of the Berlin Wall

What country did Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan belong to in 1960? U. S. S. R. or Soviet Union What is a good term that describes what is happening? desertification And if over irrigation is causing this what might also be found in this water? FERTILIZER (CHEMICALS)

What was a policy of complete separation of races? APARTHEID In what country? South Africa

What is a group of islands in the Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia? OCEANIA

Conflict between Arabs and Israelis over sovereignty of Palestine/ holy land is a result of… Creation of Israel in 1948

Growth of cities and the changes that result is called… URBANIZATION

What two major rivers are shown below? What modern country are the rivers located in? I R A Q Tigris and Euphrates What is this area called? Fertile Crescent or ancient Mesopotamia

What is a seasonal wind in South, East and Southeast Asia that impacts agricultural activity? MONSOON

In what kind of economic system does the government own the means of production and decide what is produced? COMMUNIST OR COMMAND

Group established to coordinate policies on selling petroleum products… OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Because Japan is 1. an island nation 2. has limited resources …it has a history of …. IMPERIALISM

Landform which separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia… HIMALAYAS

ASWAN HIGH DAM ON THE NILE RIVER Why build a dam? ? ? 1. Control Flooding 2. Hydro-electricity 3. Store Water

Karma Dharma Reincarnation Social system supported by Hindu beliefs. . CASTE SYSTEM

Flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Circle …. TUNDRA

A country’s distance from the moderating influence of the sea. continentality

What are the two most valuable resources in this region? OIL AND FRESH WATER

An activity in which a family produces only the food, clothing and shelter they themselves need. Subsistence farming…

Chinese Nationalists set up this republic in 1949, known as an economic tiger… TAIWAN

Agricultural program designed to develop higher-yielding grain varieties and improve food production by new techniques. . Green Revolution

Aaarg! Pirates are currently a problem off the coast of this lawless country…. Somalia

Not a storm, but a giant ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic activity… TSUNAMI

Dam built on Nile River to control flooding… Aswan High Dam

2/3 of All people with this disease live in Africa. AIDS

Results of colonialism in Africa… Separated tribes Changed tribal governance

Temperate grassland in the Northern Hemisphere steppe

Dry, unpopulated inland region of Australia. OUTBACK