Monsoon Asia Test
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| show | The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on any point of the surface of Earth. Air sinks in high pressure areas, and few clouds form. Air rises in low pressure areas to form clouds that produce rain.
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| What is a monsoon? | show 🗑
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| What is the orographic effect? | show 🗑
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| show | A dry area on the downwind side of a mountain.
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| What are the effects of living in Dhaka, Bangladesh? | show 🗑
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| show | Structures get built on stilts to prevent flood damage, farmers often grow rice.
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| What kind of climate does Jodhpur have? | show 🗑
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| show | Droughts are common, growing crops is different, drinking water can become very scarce.
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| What are some adaptations to living in Jodhpur, India's climate? | show 🗑
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| show | Dry and pleasant.
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| show | Monsoons can bring 50 inches of rain and the temperature can reach as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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| What are the effects of living in Calcutta, India? | show 🗑
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| What are some adaptation to living in Calcutta, India's climate? | show 🗑
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| What does a Pune sit in? | show 🗑
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| What is the Pune's air like most of the year? | show 🗑
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| What happens in the months June-September in Pune? | show 🗑
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| What are the effects of living in Pune, India? | show 🗑
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| show | Cloud seeding is used to help bring rain, farmers plant drought resistant crops like sugar beats.
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| show | The length of time it takes for a population to double.
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| show | A severe shortage of food that results in widespread hunger.
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| What is rate of natural increase? | show 🗑
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| What is zero population growth? | show 🗑
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| show | It was a plan to help China become a modern industrial country. Its challenges were famine because 20 million people died of starvation.
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| How does the one-child policy try to address the challenges created by China's large and growing population? | show 🗑
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| What are benefits of the one-child policy? | show 🗑
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| What are costs of the one-child policy? | show 🗑
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| show | China has the second-largest consumption of energy in the world.
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| How is the three gorges dam intended to help China address those challenges? | show 🗑
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| show | Clean energy from a renewable resource, flood control, helps river shipping.
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| show | The reservoir will cover up more than history, change the yangtze river ecosystem, the dam sits on an earthquake fault.
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| show | The country looked inward. Mao's goal was to make China self-sufficient.
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| show | They made plans to open China to the rest of the world.
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| show | Zero population growth, clean energy, economic growth.
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| What are benefits of the special economic zones? | show 🗑
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| What are costs of the special economic zones? | show 🗑
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| show | Land suitable for growing crops.
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| show | The population of a country divided by its total land area.
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| What is physiologic population density? | show 🗑
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| show | Where people live in a country, whether crowded together in cities or spread out across the country.
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| show | 90 minutes.
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| show | The owner has to get it registered with proof that the owner has a place to park it.
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| show | Smaller.
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| Do Japanese homes have separate bedrooms? | show 🗑
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| show | Terraces cut into steep mountainsides.
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| What have the Japanese built underground? | show 🗑
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| What do some Japanese wear to avoid making others ill? | show 🗑
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| show | Cookie wrappers.
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| show | A condition in which countries have strong economic ties and depend on each other for resources, technology, trade, and investment.
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| What is free trade? | show 🗑
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| What is globalization? | show 🗑
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| show | A large company that has operations in more than one country.
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| What are the four ways the design of sneakers has changed since the 1950's? | show 🗑
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| What are the three parts of the sneaker? What materials is each part made of? | show 🗑
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| show | They are livestock centers.
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| show | It's an oil rich country.
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| show | This country has factories to produce this material.
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| Where were sneakers manufactured? What changes occurred in the 1970's that caused sneaker companies to no longer make shoes at home? | show 🗑
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| What are some reasons sneaker companies moved their production offshore to Asian countries? | show 🗑
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| What is a typical sneaker distribution route from Asia to Alabama like? | show 🗑
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| show | Across the globe by ship, across the country by train and truck, from the store to your home.
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| show | Freight containers are weather proof, easy to stack, big ships carry more cargo, Memphis is a major distribution center where rail lines ans highways meet.
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| show | Yes.
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| The hilly Korean Peninsula and the chain of islands that make up Japan are part of East Asia. Japan's islands were formed by what? | show 🗑
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| Special economic zones attract more foreign business than other parts of China because they offer companies that locate there what? | show 🗑
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| What is one way people adapt to the semiarid climate of Jodhpur? | show 🗑
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| show | Free trade.
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| show | Peninsulas and islands.
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| Where do most people in Japan live? | show 🗑
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| What have special economic zones been most successful in increasing? | show 🗑
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| What is Dhaka known as? | show 🗑
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| show | Synthetic rubber.
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| show | Brazil.
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| Why does natural rubber come from Brazil? | show 🗑
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| show | Multinational corporation.
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| show | The population divided by the arable land.
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| How do you get arithmetic population density? | show 🗑
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| show | Clean energy, flood control, safer river shipping.
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| show | More steel production.
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| Why have the people of Pune, India learned to live with frequent droughts? | show 🗑
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| show | Subways and trains are overcrowded at rush hour.
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| What is arable land? | show 🗑
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| Which country is major center of sneaker design? | show 🗑
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| show | Zero population growth.
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| show | Mountains.
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| What are monsoons? | show 🗑
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| What does a country's rate of natural increase indicate? | show 🗑
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| What does globalization increase? | show 🗑
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| What does atmospheric pressure measure? | show 🗑
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