Himalayas- Fold Mountains

Question 1

Farming: What percentage of Nepalese people are farmers?

Answer 1

76%

Question 2

Farming: What percentage of Nepal’s GDP is farming?

Answer 2

35%

Question 3

Farming: What type of farming is most common in Nepal?

Answer 3

Subsistence

Question 4

Farming: What do subsistence farmers grow/ keep?

Answer 4

Rice, potatoes, goats, poultry, cattle

Question 5

Farming: Why is the land hard to farm?

Answer 5

As the land has a steep relief, and it’s high altitude

Question 6

Farming: What’s the problem with high altitudes?

Answer 6

Plants grow slower

Question 7

Farming: How have the problems with the land been overcome?

Answer 7

Flat platforms dug into the land, and cattle graze in higher areas

Question 8

HEP: What’s dammed to generate HEP?

Answer 8

Narrow valleys

Question 9

HEP: Give an example of a village that has HEP, what’s the name of the river?

Answer 9

Ghandruk, the Modi Khola river

Question 10

HEP: How many homes now have power in Ghandruk?

Answer 10

25%

Question 11

HEP: What are the hopes for the future of HEP? Why will this be good?

Answer 11

Nepal will produce enough to export to India, raising their income- allowing them to develop

Question 12

Mining: Give 2 examples of precious gemstones mined in the Himalayas

Answer 12

Diamonds, sapphires

Question 13

Tourism: How many foreign tourists visited Nepal in 2012?

Answer 13

600,000

Question 14

Tourism: How much money to Sherpas earn in the 60 days they work? Why is this so important to them?

Answer 14

£3000+, it feeds their families for a year

Question 15

Tourism: Give an example of a village that benefits from tourism

Answer 15

Namche Bazaar

Question 16

Tourism: What do trekkers buy in Namche Bazaar? Why is this good for the residents?

Answer 16

Food, souvenirs- giving the residents an income

Question 17

Tourism: How many metric tons of garbage are there per 1Km in the Himalayas? Give examples of the rubbish left

Answer 17

17, including oxygen tanks and food wrappers

Question 18

Tourism: What’s the problem with all the litter?

Answer 18

It pollutes habitats and drinking water (also caused by toilet tents)

Question 19

Deforestation: How much more wood to tourists use than sherpas?

Answer 19

3 times more

Question 20

Deforestation: Why is it a problem that so many trees are being cut down and burned?

Answer 20

Pollution, and replanting the trees takes a long time at such high altitudes

Question 21

Deforestation: How many trees are being planted a year?

Answer 21

200,000

Question 22

Deforestation: How else is this problem being solved?

Answer 22

More households are using gas, so less wood is needed