Asia
What is the capital of Indonesia?
Jacarta
Which has higher elevations: South Korea or Japan?
Japan
What does "Himalyas" mean in Sanscrit?
"House of Snow"
How much annual rainfall does most of Saudi Arabia have?
0-10 inches
How many people per square mile are in Saudi Arabia?
0-5
How many people per square mile are northern Russia?
0-5
Rank the following countries by greatest to lowest population: (a) India (b) Pakistan (c) Japan (d) Bangladesh (e) China (f) Indonesia
1. China 2. India 3. Indonesia 4. Pakistan 5. Bangladesh 6. Japan
Rank the following in order from tallest to lowest elevation: (a) Ural Mountains (b) Plateau of Tibet (c) West Siberian Plains(d) Zagros Mountains and (e) East Siberian Uplands
1. Plateau of Tibet 2. Zagros Mountains 3. East Siberian Uplands 4. Ural Mountains 5. West Siberian Plains
How much annual rainfall does most of central Russia have?
10-20 inches
How many people per square mile are in western Iran?
100-250
What is Japan's size in square miles?
145,883 square miles
Are the 48 states about 2 times or 20 times larger than Japan?
20 times
How much annual rainfall does western Turkey have?
20-40 inches
How many times larger is India's population than the U.S.?
3.5
Between what two latitudes does the cross-section represent?
36 north, 28 north
How much annual rainfall does northern Japan have?
40-80 inches
How much of the wheat that the Japanese consume is grown in Japan?
5%
How long is the growing season in most of Japan?
6-8 months
What continent is southwest of Asia?
Africa
How long is the growing season in Indonesia?
All year long
What ocean is north of Asia?
Arctic Ocean
What continent is southeast of Asia?
Astralia
What is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
What is the capital of China?
Beiging
What is the land use for most of India?
Commercial farming
What are the two land covers for Indochina Peninsula?
Cropland, Tropical Rain Forest
What is the land cover for most of the Arabian Peninsula?
Desert
What is the land use in northwest Iran?
Subsistence farming
Is the North China Plain east or west of the Sichuan Basin?
East
What continent is west of Asia?
Europe
True or false - China and Japan share a border?
False
True or false - India is on the Pacific Ocean?
False
True or false - Moscow, the capital of Russia, is in Asia?
False
True or false - Uzbekistan is on the Caspian Sea?
False
What is the land cove for Severnaya Zemlya at 80 N?
Glacier
What is the land cover for most of Kazakhstan?
Grassland
What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
What is the worlds highest mountain range?
Himalyas
What is the country between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?
India
What ocean is south of Asia?
Indian Ocean
What is Asia's southernmost country?
Indonisia
What is the capital of Philippines?
Manila
What is the landlocked country between China and Russia?
Mongolia
What controls Southern Asia's climate?
Monsoons
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
What is the land use along the border of China and India?
No widespread use.
What is the land use for most of Russia north of the Arctic Circle?
Nomadic hearding
What ocean is east of Asia?
Pacific Ocean
What is the worlds highest plateau?
Plateau of Tibet
Winter winds from Central Asia keep why kind of clouds away?
Rain clouds
Does most of Indonesia's population live in urban or rural areas?
Rural
What is Asia's northernmost country?
Russia
Which country has the longest average growing season? (a) Iran (b) Saudi Arabia (c) Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Is India larger or smaller than the 48 states in land area?
Smaller
Summer winds bring torrents of wind to Central Asia from where?
The ocean.
The winds in Central Asia do what in summer?
They reverse.
What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
What is the land cover for Borneo near the Equator?
Tropical Rain Forest
True or false - Do China and India surround Nepal?
True
True or false - Laos is a landlocked country?
True
True or false - South Korea is between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan?
True
True or false - The Equator crosses Indonesia?
True
True or false I n Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City is larger than Da Nang?
True
What is the land cover for most of Siberia north of the Arctic Circle?
Tundra
Which of the following land covers cannot be found near the Tropic of Cancer? (a) desert (b) crop lands (c) tundra (d) tropical rain forest
Tundra
What is the country on the Black Sea and the Meditrranean Sea?
Turkey
How long is the growing season in Russia north of the Arctic Circle?
Under 3 months
What is the land use around the Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Shainghai and Beijing?
Urban
What is the S-shaped country on the South China Sea?
Vietnam
Is the Plateau of Iran higher than 1,000 above sea level?
Yes
How many people per square mile are in India?
over 250
How many people per square mile are in eastern China?
over 250
How much annual rainfall does Indonesia have along the Equator?
over 80 inches
