World Regional Geography - 05 - South Asia

Question 1

What is the rough GDP per capita for India and its surrounding terratories?

Answer 1

~$2,250

Question 2

True or false Afghanistan is on the Indian subcontinent?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or false, Sri Lanka is part of the Indian
Plate, but sea level controls the
degree to which it is linked (by
land) with India

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What mountain range is created from collisions between the south-Asian and Indian plates?

Answer 4

Himalaya mountain range.

Question 5

What mountain range is home of Mt. Everest?

Answer 5

Himalaya Mountain’s.

Question 6

What 3 rivers have the Himalayas as their source?

Answer 6

Source of the Indus, Ganges, and
Brahmaputra Rivers

Question 7

Multiple choice; ________ is an area with high elevation,
but relatively flat.
A-Mountain
B-Plateau
C-Savana
D-Highland

Answer 7

B-Plateau

Question 8

Where is the Tibetan Plateau?

Answer 8

Largely located in southwest China

Question 9

What is considered a Historical travel center between
Middle East, China, and India?

Answer 9

Hindu Kush

Question 10

What part of India is Extremely fertile soil?
– Agriculture is primarily wheat and
rice

Answer 10

Indo-Gangetic Plain

Question 11

Describe the Eastern and Western Ghats?

Answer 11

Orographic lifting draws moisture
out of the air
• Region has heavy rainfall,
particularly in the west
• Biodiversity hotspot

Question 12

What is Orographic lifting?

Answer 12

Driving winds push air up the
windward side of a mountain.
– Air expands and cools and it rises.
– Moisture precipitates out.
• On the lee side, the air has less
water content. It ends up drier
and hotter as a result.
• The same pattern produces the
desert in the western United
States .

Question 13

True or false; water has a very high heat capacity?

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What are monsoons?

Answer 14

Monsoons are seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and
precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
For India, this means dry winters/springs and wet summers/falls.

Question 15

What percentage of India’s GDP comes from agriculture and related sectors?

Answer 15

15%

Question 16

____________ is a particularly low-lying country and is prone to
flooding.

Answer 16

Bangladesh

Question 17

Funding from what country is
attempting to build dikes to hold
back the water from flooding Bangladesh?

Answer 17

The Netherlands

Question 19

Sino” is a prefix meaning ________?
A-Arabic
B-English
C-Spanish
D-Chinese

Answer 19

D-Chinese

Question 20

What is the Caste System?

Answer 20

A ranking system used to value people based on occupation, race, and importance.

Question 21

What originated around the 5th century BCE in Eastern India

Answer 21

Buddhism

Question 22

What does Buddha mean?

Answer 22

Buddha means “Enlightened” or
“Awakened” one

Question 23

Describe the East India Company?

Answer 23

• Chartered in 1600 for pursing
trade in the region.
• Frequent scuffles with Dutch and
Portuguese traders.
• Increasingly powerful –
parliamentary influence and
private military, especially in the
Bengal region in northeast India.
• After a brutal suppression of
rebellion in 1857, the Company
was nationalized in 1858.

Question 24

Describe British Raj?

Answer 24

• “Raj” means “reign”
• British governmental officials felt
that the Company was a poor
administrator.
• Queen Victoria, Empress of India
in 1876
• Significant contributions in WWI
and WWII
• Increasing nationalism
movements from Ghandi and
others.

Question 25

Who was Mahatma Gandhi?

Answer 25

Preeminent leader of Indian Nationalism

Question 26

Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?

Answer 26

1st Prime Minister to India – In office 1947 – 1964 Early adoption of nuclear power – Leapfrogging technology, e.g., mobile phones, wifi, mobile banking, renewable energy

Question 27

Where was the Kashmir conflict roughly located?

Answer 27

Contested territory since 1947. – China, Pakistan, India

Question 29

True or false; East and West Pakistan a single country until 1971

Answer 29

True

Question 30

When East and West Pakistan become a single country in 1971, what country did they form?

Answer 30

Bangladesh

Question 31

What country first tests nuclear weapons in 1974.

Answer 31

India

Question 32

What year did Pakistan test nuclear weapons?

Answer 32

1998

Question 33

True or false; South Asia has the highest GDP growth rate of any region.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Describe Demographic Transition Model

Answer 34

• Describes society’s population growth related to stages defined by the balance of birth and death rates • Death rates fall faster than birth rates as medicine improves • Birth rates all as cultural factors (including birth control) change • Eventually, birth and death rates approach balance again

Question 35

Although global population is increasing, the rate of growth is __________?

Answer 35

Slowing Down

Question 36

What is the age dependency ratio?

Answer 36

• How many dependents to producers? • The ratio of dependents (< 14 or > 64) to the working population (15 to 64) • Sometimes expressed as an Elderly Dependency Ratio (>64) to (15 to 64) or Youth Dependency Ratio • Higher number means more dependents

Question 37

What country has Very lowland country – About 1/3 of the country floods annually

Answer 37

Bangladesh

Question 38

True or false Bangladesh has a very low population density

Answer 38

False

Question 39

True or false; South Asia as a whole is generally very urban relative to the rest of the world.

Answer 39

False