1. READY? What countries make up South Asia?
Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives
READY?
What was a constant threat during the Cold War? What was it all about anyway?
Tension between the US and USSR over political and economic ideas.
Always the threat of nuclear war.

2. What do these things have in common……
Apartheid
Jim Crow
Kim Jong Il
Joseph Stalin
Pol Pot
Tsar Nicholas
Mao Zedong
Kurds
Cherokees
Palestinians
North Africa
Indonesia
Bangladesh
Vietnam War
Korean War
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Strait of Malacca
Strait of Hormuz
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Forestry
Mining
Fishing
Agriculture
Pakistan
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Israel
Cyclone
Hurricane
Typhoon
Italy
Russia
Japan
North Atlantic Drift
Himalayas
Equator
Tiananmen Square
Bloody Sunday
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Indus
Ganges
Yellow
Tigris
Euphrates
Germany
Rwanda
Cambodia

3. And if over irrigation is causing this
What country
did Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan
belong to in 1960?
U.S.S.R. or Soviet
Union
What is a good term that describes what is happening?
desertification
And if over irrigation is causing this
what might also be found in this
water?
FERTILIZER (CHEMICALS)

4. In what country? South Africa
What was a policy of complete separation of races?
APARTHEID
In what country?
South Africa

5. What is a group of islands in the Pacific, including Melanesia,
Micronesia and Polynesia?
OCEANIA

6. Conflict between Arabs and Israelis over sovereignty of Palestine/
holy land is a result of…
Creation of Israel in
1948

7. Growth of cities and the changes that result is called…
URBANIZATION

8. What is this area called?
What two major rivers are shown below?
Tigris and
Euphrates
What modern
country are the rivers
located
in?
IRAQ
What is this area called?
Fertile Crescent or ancient
Mesopotamia

9. MONSOON What is a seasonal wind in South, East and
Southeast Asia that impacts agricultural
activity?
MONSOON

10. In what kind of economic system does the government
own the means of production and decide what is
produced?
COMMUNIST OR
COMMAND

11. OPEC Group established to coordinate policies on selling petroleum
products…
OPEC
(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

12. IMPERIALISM Because Japan is 1. an island nation
2. has limited resources
…it has a history of ….
IMPERIALISM

13. HIMALAYAS Landform which separates the Indian subcontinent
from the rest of Asia…
HIMALAYAS

14. Why build a dam??? Control Flooding Hydro-electricity Store Water
ASWAN HIGH DAM ON THE NILE RIVER
Why build a dam???
Control Flooding
Hydro-electricity
Store Water

15. CASTE SYSTEM Social system supported by Hindu beliefs.. Karma Dharma
Reincarnation
Social system supported by Hindu beliefs..
CASTE SYSTEM

16. Flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Circle ….
TUNDRA

17. A country’s distance from the moderating influence of the
sea.
continentality

18. What are the two most valuable resources in this region?
OIL AND FRESH WATER

19. Subsistence farming… An activity in which a family
produces only the food,
clothing and shelter they
themselves need.
Subsistence farming…

20. TAIWAN Chinese Nationalists set up this republic in 1949,
known as an economic tiger…
TAIWAN

21. Green Revolution Agricultural program designed to
develop higher-yielding grain
varieties and improve food production
by new techniques..
Green Revolution

22. Aaarg! Pirates are currently a problem off the coast of
this lawless country….
Somalia

23. TSUNAMI Not a storm, but a giant ocean wave caused
by an underwater earthquake or volcanic
activity…
TSUNAMI

24. Dam built on Nile River to
control flooding…
Aswan
High
Dam

25. 2/3 of
All people
with
this disease
live in Africa.
AIDS

26. Separated tribes Changed tribal governance
Results of colonialism in Africa…
Separated tribes
Changed tribal
governance

27. Temperate grassland in the
Northern Hemisphere
steppe

28. Dry, unpopulated inland region of
Australia.
OUTBACK