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Asian Riverss
Asian Rivers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the longest river in China and Asia, also the third longest in the world? | Yangtze River |
| What river rises in the Kulun Mountains, flows across the Tibetan Plateau, passes the cities of Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, and empties into the South China Sea? | Yangtze River |
| Which dam, the world's largest, that reduce flooding on the Yangtze River? | Three Gorges Dam |
| This river in Asia runs 1,800 miles and its source in the Tibetan Himalayas? | Brahmaputra or Tsangpo or Jamuna |
| This river starts eastward across the plateau, turns south into the Indian state of Assam, and then enters Bangladesh where it merges with the Ganges to form the world's largest delta. | Brahamaputra, Tsangpo, or Jamuna |
| What does the Brahmaputra cause as for a natural disater which is serving as a historical route to Tibet? Hint: looking for a natural diaster which people try not make it happen by making a dam | flood |
| What river, at 3,400 miles, is the China's second-longest river and it is the most important to the nothern half of the country,China? | Yellow River, Huang He, or Huang Ho |
| This river is the holiest river of Hinduism | Ganges River |
| Which mountain range in India is the source of the holiest river of Hinduism,Ganges? | Himalayas |
| What is the world's largest delta? | Ganges Delta |
| When is the Grand Canal built? Hint: Which Dynasty of China | Ming Dynasty |
| What ratio of every human being lives in the Ganges Basin, a population density that is rapidly polluting the river; a significan source of that pollution is cremated remains | One in every twelve human beings |
| What is the chief river of Southeast Asia? | Mekong River |
| Where does the Mekong RIver originates from? | Eastern Tibet |
| What river flows south through Cambodia, and eneters the South China Sea in southern Vietnam, just south of Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon | Mekong River |
| What capital cities are on the Mekong River? | Vientiane and Phnom Penh |
| What countries have a diplomatic conflict for building dams and clearing rapids? | China,Laos,and Cambodia |
| What river is the eastern of two rivers that define the historic region of Mesopotamia(meaning,"The Land Between Two Rivers")? | Tigris River |
| What is the historic region that was home to the ancient civilizations of Sumer and Akkad? | Mesopotamia |
| Which country does Tigirs River rises in (source)? | Turkey |
| Which gulf does the Tigris River empties? | Persian Gulf |
| What Asian river is the western border of Mesopotamia? | Euphrates River |
| What mountain in Turkey is the source for Euphrates River? | Zagros Mountains |
| What river is the chief river of Myanmar(also known as Burma)? | Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwaddy |
| What river is the chief river of Pakistan as well as being the ultimate source of the name of India? | Indus River |
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