Asian Geography and Culture Jeopardy

GeographyClimate and Population

DensityEnvironmental

Issues Culture Miscellaneous

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Geography for 1

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Question: What country is this?

Geography for 1

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Answer: Indonesia

Geography for 2

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Question: Which physical feature is this?

Geography for 2

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Answer: Indus River

Geography for 3

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Question: The Korean Peninsula is surrounded by the Yellow Sea and which other body of water?

Geography for 3

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Answer: Sea of Japan

Geography for 4

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Question: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!Which current brings a warmer climate to Japan?

Geography for 4

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Answer: Japan Current

Geography for 5

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Question: Compare and contrast the Yangtze and Huang He Rivers. Give three comparisons and three contrasts.

Geography for 5

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Answer: Similarities: They both flood, they both are important for farming, they both start in the mountains in the west. Differences: Yangtze is longer than Huang He. Yangtze can be used for trade but the Huang He cannot. Yangtze empties into East China Sea but the Huang He empties into the Yellow Sea. The Huang He is yellow in color, the Yangtze is not.

Climate for 1

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Question: What characterizes a tropical climate zone?

Climate for 1

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Answer: it lies between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, has a low range of temperatures, and has rather heavy rainfall year round

Climate for 2

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Question: What is the weather generally like in India in the winter and why?

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Answer: it is dry because the winter monsoon brings dry winds out of Nepal and western China.

Climate for 3

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Question: What part of Japan is most densely populated and why? List one economic reason and one physical geography reason.

Climate for 3

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Answer: The coasts are more densely populated because the middle of the islands are high in elevation (mountains, volcanoes). Also the coast offers fishing and trade opportunities.

Climate for 4

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Question: What type of climate does most of eastern Asia have? Most of southern Asia?

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Answer: Eastern Asia has mostly humid subtropical climates and southern Asia has mostly tropical monsoon climates

Climate for 5

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Question: Explain and diagram how a summer monsoon occurs.

Climate for 5

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Answer: land is warmer than water in the summer so the air above the land heats up and rises creating lower air pressure. Winds from the ocean blow toward the land, evaporating water over the ocean along the way. The air cools and rain falls as the winds come.

Environmental Issues for 1

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Question: What causes most respiratory diseases in rural India?

Environmental Issues for 1

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Answer: burning coal or wood for cooking fires in homes, which produces harmful smoke.

Environmental Issues for 2

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Question: What are three solutions for cleaning up the Ganges?

Environmental Issues for 2

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Answer: building better infrastructure (sewers), water purification plants; good bacteria to eat up bad bacteria, better crematoriums, aid for foreign companies/countries

Environmental Issues for 3

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Question: Explain the three main ways the Ganges is polluted.

Environmental Issues for 3

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Answer: lack of infrastructure, especially sewers, puts raw sewage into the river. People also dump trash into the river. People put the ashes of their dead relatives into the river.

Environmental Issues for 4

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Question: How are monsoons both helpful and harmful?

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Answer: monsoons bring rains needed for crops to grow. However, too much rain can cause flooding which can causes villages to be destroyed, crops to be flooded, and potential drownings

Environmental Issues for 5

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Question: How is the Asian Brown Cloud formed and why is it a problem?

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Answer: It is formed from industrial pollution (factories) and vehicle exhaust. It’s a problem because it is causing respiratory illnesses.

Culture for 1

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Question: The Vedas are the spiritual texts of which religion?

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Answer: Hinduism

Culture for 2

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Question: Which religion originated in Japan and focuses on giving thanks to the Kami (spirits) and remembering and showing respect to ones ancestors?

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Answer: Shintoism

Culture for 3

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Question: Name three characteristics of Confucianism.

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Answer:1. it is more of a philosophy than a

religion 2. It emphasizes right living3. The family is important4. A person’s wellbeing depends

on others’ wellbeing

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Question: Life involves sufferingDesiring worldly things causes sufferingSuffering eventually ends with NirvanaThe way to Nirvana is through the eightfold path These statements are referred to as the ___

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Answer: Four Noble Truths

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Question: Both Hindus and Buddhists believe in reincarnation. How are their beliefs about reincarnation different?

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Answer: In Hinduism, if you have bad karma, you can be reborn into a lesser life. This is not true of Buddhism.

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Explain the concept of karma

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Answer:The belief that one’s actions determine one’s next fate

“What goes around comes around”

Miscellaneous for 2

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Which Asian country that has a low GDP paradoxically has a high literacy rate and why?

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Answer:North Korea because they make education mandatory (they invest in education even though they don’t have a strong economy.

Miscellaneous for 3

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Explain how increasing women’s educational opportunities and equality leads to a lowered birth rate and can help control population.

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Answer:When women have more education and more rights, they are able to get better jobs, which leads most women to have children later and have less children. Also, by having goals/education/a job, the cultural idea that a woman’s main purpose is to be a mother is not as strong.

Miscellaneous for 4

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Why must Asian countries grow so much food and how do they take advantage of all possible land?

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Answer:They have large populations to feed so they do this by farming all available land through methods like terracing and irrigation.

Miscellaneous for 5

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Explain each caste in the caste system.

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Answer:Brahman- priestsKshtriya- warriors/rulers/landownersVaisya- merchants/traders/farmersSudra- peasants and field workersHarijan- “untouchables”