India Flashcards
_______ is the name of the mountain range in northern India/Nepal.
Himalayas
________ is the capital of India.
New Delhi
Most of south Asia’s economy comes from________.
Farming
Pakistan’s primary climate is _______.
Desert
True or False - The wet season is monsoon season, which helps with agriculture but can also cause mudslides and heavy flooding.
True
True or False - India has the second largest population in the world, with more than one billion people living in its lands.
True
True or False - Bangladesh’s predominant religion is Buddhism.
False
True or False - Bhutan’s predominant ethnicity is Iranian
False
___________ is a beutiful and fertile landthat some people have called paradise on Earth.
Kashmir
The ___________ are a string of islands near the southwestern tip of India in the Indian ocean.
Maldives
Southeast Asia’s climate and culture are strongly affected by ______ winds and rain.
dry
One of the first cultures in the world began in the valley around the ___________ more than 4,600 years ago.
Indus River
The _______ river is more than 1,500 miles long and flows southeast through India to the Bay of Bengal
Ganges
If the monsoon rains are very light, _______ can occur which leads to crop failure and famine.
drought
True or False - Followers of Christianity believe that the Ganges River is holy.
False
True or False - There were two great of the early Indus valley civilization called Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
True
True or False - By 1700 BCE, the Indus valley civilization had almost totally disappeared which brought an end to one of the world’s earliest agriculture societies.
True
True or False - In 1960, India and Nepal signed a water treaty which allowed both nations to have use of the Indus river
False
Smaller rivers and streams flow into the Indus River from snow in the ___________ that has melted
Himalayas
One famine_____________ in 1974-1945vkilled more than 200,000 people
Bangladesh
The most populous country in the South Asia region is _____, which has more than one billion people.
India
__________ is a slang name for the indian film industry.
Bollywood
The _________ was a series of paths and passages used by traders that linked the cities of China to the Middle East and Europe.
Silk Road
Pakistan is largely ________; therefore, their cuisine is made with specific Islamic food preparation practices.
Muslim
