Asian Geography and Culture Jeopardy

1. Asian Geography and Culture Jeopardy

3. Geography for 1 Question: What country is this? Check your answer….

4. Geography for 1 Answer: Indonesia Back to the game board….

5. Geography for 2 Question: Which physical feature is this? Check your answer….

6. Geography for 2 Answer: Indus River Back to the game board….

7. Geography for 3 Question: The Korean Peninsula is surrounded by the Yellow Sea and which other body of water? Check your answer….

8. Geography for 3 Answer: Sea of Japan Back to the game board….

9. Geography for 4 Question: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Which current brings a warmer climate to Japan? Check your answer….

10. Geography for 4 Answer: Japan Current Back to the game board….

11. Geography for 5 Question: Compare and contrast the Yangtze and Huang He Rivers. Give three comparisons and three contrasts. Check your answer….

12. Geography for 5 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. Back to the game board….

13. Climate for 1 Question: What characterizes a tropical climate zone? Check your answer….

14. Climate for 1 Answer: it lies between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, has a low range of temperatures, and has rather heavy rainfall year round Back to the game board….

15. Climate for 2 Question: What is the weather generally like in India in the winter and why? Check your answer….

16. Climate for 2 Answer: it is dry because the winter monsoon brings dry winds out of Nepal and western China. Back to the game board….

17. Climate for 3 Question: What part of Japan is most densely populated and why? List one economic reason and one physical geography reason. Check your answer….

18. Climate for 3 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. Back to the game board….

19. Climate for 4 Question: What type of climate does most of eastern Asia have? Most of southern Asia? Check your answer….

20. Climate for 4 Answer: Eastern Asia has mostly humid subtropical climates and southern Asia has mostly tropical monsoon climates Back to the game board….

21. Climate for 5 Question: Explain and diagram how a summer monsoon occurs. Check your answer….

22. Climate for 5 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. Back to the game board….

23. Environmental Issues for 1 Question: What causes most respiratory diseases in rural India? Check your answer….

24. Environmental Issues for 1 Answer: burning coal or wood for cooking fires in homes, which produces harmful smoke. Back to the game board….

25. Environmental Issues for 2 Question: What are three solutions for cleaning up the Ganges? Check your answer….

26. Environmental Issues for 2 Answer: building better infrastructure (sewers), water purification plants; good bacteria to eat up bad bacteria, better crematoriums, aid for foreign companies/countries Back to the game board….

27. Environmental Issues for 3 Question: Explain the three main ways the Ganges is polluted. Check your answer….

28. Environmental Issues for 3 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. Back to the game board….

29. Environmental Issues for 4 Question: How are monsoons both helpful and harmful? Check your answer….

30. Environmental Issues for 4 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 Back to the game board….

31. Environmental Issues for 5 Question: How is the Asian Brown Cloud formed and why is it a problem? Check your answer….

32. Environmental Issues for 5 Answer: It is formed from industrial pollution (factories) and vehicle exhaust. It’s a problem because it is causing respiratory illnesses. Back to the game board….

33. Culture for 1 Question: The Vedas are the spiritual texts of which religion? Check your answer….

34. Culture for 1 Answer: Hinduism Back to the game board….

35. Culture for 2 Question: Which religion originated in Japan and focuses on giving thanks to the Kami (spirits) and remembering and showing respect to ones ancestors? Check your answer….

36. Culture for 2 Answer: Shintoism Back to the game board….

37. Culture for 3 Question: Name three characteristics of Confucianism. Check your answer….

38. Culture for 3 Answer: it is more of a philosophy than a religion It emphasizes right living The family is important A person’s wellbeing depends on others’ wellbeing Back to the game board….

39. Culture for 4 Question: Life involves suffering Desiring worldly things causes suffering Suffering eventually ends with Nirvana The way to Nirvana is through the eightfold path These statements are referred to as the ___ Check your answer….

40. Culture for 4 Answer: Four Noble Truths Back to the game board….

41. Culture for 5 Question: Both Hindus and Buddhists believe in reincarnation. How are their beliefs about reincarnation different? Check your answer….

42. Culture for 5 Answer: In Hinduism, if you have bad karma, you can be reborn into a lesser life. This is not true of Buddhism. Back to the game board….

43. Miscellaneous for 1 Explain the concept of karma Check your answer….

44. Miscellaneous for 1 • Answer: The belief that one’s actions determine one’s next fate “What goes around comes around” Back to the game board….

45. Miscellaneous for 2 Which Asian country that has a low GDP paradoxically has a high literacy rate and why? Check your answer….

46. Miscellaneous for 2 • Answer: North Korea because they make education mandatory (they invest in education even though they don’t have a strong economy. Back to the game board….

47. Miscellaneous for 3 Explain how increasing women’s educational opportunities and equality leads to a lowered birth rate and can help control population. Check your answer….

48. Miscellaneous for 3 • 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. Back to the game board….

49. Miscellaneous for 4 Why must Asian countries grow so much food and how do they take advantage of all possible land? Check your answer….

50. Miscellaneous for 4 • Answer: They have large populations to feed so they do this by farming all available land through methods like terracing and irrigation. Back to the game board….