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Chapters 8.1 - 8.5 Flashcards

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1
Q

_____ is the name of the mountain range in northern India/Nepal.

A

Himalayas

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2
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_____ _____ is the capital of India.

A

New Delhi

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3
Q

Most of South Asia’s economy comes from _____.

A

Farming

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4
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Pakistan’s primary climate is _____.

A

Desert

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5
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The wet season is monsoon season, which helps with agriculture but can also cause mudslides and heavy flooding.

A

True

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6
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India has the second largest population in the world, with more than one billion people living in its lands.

A

True

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7
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Bangladesh’s predominant religion is Buddhism.

A

False

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8
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Bhutan’s predominant ethnicity is Iranian.

A

False

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9
Q

______ is a beautiful and fertile land that some people have called paradise on earth.

A

Kashmir

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10
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The _____ are a string of islands near the southwestern tip of India in the Indian Ocean.

A

Maldives

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11
Q

Southeast Asia’s climate and culture are strongly affected by _____ winds and rain.

A

monsoon

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12
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One of the first cultures in the world began in the valley around the _______ more than 4,600 years ago.

A

Indus River

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13
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The ______ river is more than 1,500 miles long and flows southeast through India to the Bay of Bengal.

A

Ganges

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14
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If the monsoon rains are very light, ______ can occur which leads to crop failure and famine.

A

drought

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15
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Followers of Christianity believe that the Ganges River is holy.

A

False

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16
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There were two great cities of the early Indus valley civilization called Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

A

True

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17
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By 1700 BCE, the Indus valley civilization had almost totally disappeared which brought an end to one of the world’s earliest agricultural societies.

A

True

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18
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In 1960, India and Nepal signed a water treaty which allowed both nations to have use of the Indus River.

A

False

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19
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Smaller rivers and streams flow into the Indus River from snow in the ______ that has melted.

A

Himalayas

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20
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One famine in _______ in 1974-1975 killed more than 200,000 people.

A

Bangladesh

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21
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The most populous country in the South Asia region is ______, which has more than one billion people.

A

India

22
Q

______ is a slang name for the Indian film industry.

A

Bollywood

23
Q

The _____ was a series of paths and passages used by traders that linked the cities of China to the Middle east and Europe.

A

Silk Road

24
Q

Pakistan is largely _____; therefore, their cuisine is made with specific Islamic food preparation practices.

A

Muslim

25
Q

One of the most important festivals in Hinduism is the harvest festival of Ramadan.

A

False

26
Q

The Hindus believe in reincarnation, the belief that individual beings live and die many times.

A

True

27
Q

Islam is the majority religion in both Pakistan and Bangladesh.

A

True

28
Q

______ is the most widely spoken language in India, while ______ is the official language of Pakistan.

A

Hindi and Urdu

29
Q

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain gave a company called the _______ _______ _______.

A

East India Company

30
Q

For centuries, the ______ ______ in India was a central principle through which social position was understood.

A

caste system

31
Q

In the year 1600, Queen Elizabeth l provided a royal grant to the _______ _______ _______ which gave it a monopoly over all English trade rights in the area.

A

East India Company

32
Q

As a young man, _______ worked against discrimination in the British colonies of South Africa and India.

A

Mohandus Gandhi

33
Q

More than half of India’s population depends on _______ to survive.

A

agriculture

34
Q

Gandhi’s famous _______ taught Indians that they did not need trade because much of what they needed was available in India.

A

“salt march”

35
Q

Beginning around 1750, the British military captured large areas of India by force/war and completely controlled India by 1858.

A

True

36
Q

The number of Hindi speakers in India has helped import jobs from wealthy English-speaking countries.

A

False

37
Q

India is the world’s largest monarchy.

A

False

38
Q

Great Britain granted independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

A

True

39
Q

Pakistan’s high rate of _______ makes it tough to take advantage of the growth in technology services like India has.

A

illiteracy

40
Q

Two important political groups who called for public support for public support for ending British rule were the _______ _______ _______, formed in 1885 and the _______ _______, formed in 1906.

A

Indian National Congress and the Muslim League

41
Q

Years of _______ had made Indians doubt the value of being part of the world economy.

A

colonialism

42
Q

Today, almost one-third of the people in India live in _______.

A

poverty

43
Q

Under the caste system, the lowest group in Indian society is the _______, or untouchables.

A

Dalits

44
Q

The problem of hundreds of thousands of educated Indians leaving India since the early 1990s for better opportunities abroad is called _______.

A

“brain drain”

45
Q

Today, wealth in India is not distributed evenly because there is a small number of poor people and a large number of rich people.

A

False

46
Q

The industries in modern-day India include information technology, customer service, manufacturing and textile, and film.

A

True

47
Q

In India, boys are less likely to attend school than girls.

A

False

48
Q

Discrimination based on caste is now illegal in India; however, it continues to be a problem.

A

True

49
Q

_______ _______, a Dalit, is the first women speaker in the Indian Parliament.

A

Meira Kumar

50
Q

About half of the rural villages in India lack basic services, including _______, _______ _______, _______ _______ _______, and _______ - _______ _______, and other infrastructure needed to improve economic opportunities.

A

electricity, good schools, good medical services, and well-kept roads

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