SOUTH ASIA JEOPARDY

South Asia
100: How the landscape is being changed in Nepal. (deforestation)
200: Three prominent primary products produced in South Asia. (fish, tropical crops,
rice)
300: Three typical demographics of South Asian countries. (low literacy rates, poor
infrastructure, basis of economies is agriculture)
400: Three reasons why families are large. (children needed in fields, culture values
large families, desire for a son)
500: Three major farming regions. (Indus Valley, Ganges Valley, Deccan Plateau)

Partition of India
100: The region over which Pakistan and India clash. (Kashmir)
200: The basis of the partition of India. (religion)
300: This group demanded a separate state when India achieved independence.
(Muslims)
400: The country that East Pakistan became. (Bangladesh)
500: The year India achieved independence. (1947)

Religion
100: The main polytheistic religion of South Asia. (Hinduism)
200: Three main religions of South Asia. (Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism)
300: Two South Asian religious groups who do not get along. (Hindus and Muslims)
400: Three Islamic nations in South Asia. (Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives)
500: Mecca is to Muslims as ________ is to Hindus. (Varanasi)

Climate and Weather
100: Weather pattern in which the winds blow in the same direction for an extended
period of time. (monsoon)
200: Weather phenomena unique to South Asia. (monsoon)
300: Three ways that the monsoons influences South Asia. (terrible floods, kill people
and livestock, destroy crops and villages)
400: Three effects climates have on South Asia. (clothing worn, crops grown, housing
materials used)
500: Six climates found in South Asia. (tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, arid, semiarid, highland, and humid subtropical)

Natural Hazards
100: Overabundance of water. (flood)
200: Wearing away of the land. (erosion)
300: Moving of tectonic plates. (earthquake)
400: This river of northern India is a flood hazard. (Ganges)
500: This river of northeastern India and Bangladesh is a flood hazard. (Brahmaputra)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

India
200: 80% of the people worship this religion. (Hindu)
400: Three things that have not yet reached Indian villages. (electricity, telephones,
paved roads)
600: Four things typically found in Indian cities. (smog, noise, pollution, crowds)
800: Four statements about village life in India. (sanitation is poor; medical services
are not abundant; more than half the people cannot read or write; life
goes on as it has for generations)
1000: Four statements about the caste system. (has been abolished; remains part of
life in villages; person is born into a caste and cannot move; people are
assigned to castes based upon occupations)

Landforms
200: The mountains found in northern South Asia. (Himalayas)
400: The side of the Himalayas in its rain shadow. (northern)
600: Four major mountains found in South Asia. (Himalayas, Western Ghats, Eastern
Ghats, Hindu Kush)
800: Three things influenced by water in South Asia. (agriculture, trade, transportation)
1000: Four things influenced by mountains in South Asia. (population, settlements,
climate, movement)

Culture
200: The country where the caste system is present. (India)
400: The structure shown. (Taj Mahal)
600: Three most prominent religious structures of South Asia. (temples, mosques,
shrines)
800: Four cultural characteristics. (religious conflict, religious diversity, areas of dense
and sparse population, contrast between rural and urban areas)
1000: Four statements about India’s economy. (extremely varied, exanding rapidly,
participation in global markets, ways of making a living range from subsistence agriculture to computer technology)

Green Revolution
200: The percentage of India’s land that is arable. (56)
400: End result. (could feed its own people)
600: Why it was needed. (starvation)
800: Three main elements. (increase amount of cultivated land, harvesting two crops
per year, increasing yields with genetically improved seeds)
1000: Four downsides. (displaced people, disrupted the environment, required more
dangerous fertilizers and pesticides, techniques did not work everywhere)


Europeans
200: The country that colonized India. (Britain)
400: Language colonizers brought to India. (English)
600: Nickname given to India. (“jewel of the crown”)
800: India is a member of this economic and political alliance. (Commonwealth of
Nations)
1000: Three reasons why they came. (trade, spread Christianity, expand their
empires)