SE Asia Geographic Understandings

What is the largest religious group found on the Indian subcontinent?

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Shintoism

Who founded the religion of Buddhism?

• Lao Tzu

• Siddhartha Gautama

• No one

• Kong Fuzi

What are the names of the two deserts found in China?

• Gobi and Ganges

• Gobi and Taklimakan

• Huang He and Taklimakan

• Sahara and Gobi

Why is Huang He River referred to as the Yellow River?

• No one really knows where this name came from

• The Chinese government named the River.

• Silt in the water gives it a yellow color.

• Villages along this river are famous for producing a cloth using bright yellow dye.

Why is the Huang He sometimes called "China's Sorrow?"

• The river often runs dry leaving farmers to starve.

• Flooding causes destruction of property and death.

• It is polluted so cannot be used for drinking water.

• The river has too many rapids and waterfalls for it to be used as transportation.

What is the Ganges River used for by the people of India?

• The river is ignored.

• The river is sacred to Buddhists only.

• many people use the river for drinking water, food, and transportation.

• It is only used by animals.

How has India's need to develop more industry ended up creating problems along the Ganges River?

• Factories along the river dump industrial waster and chemicals into the river every day.

• No one is allowed to cremate dead bodies along the river since the factories have been built.

• Industries located along the river use so much water that the Ganges is almost dry by the time it reaches the sea.

• Factory owners have refused to allow the Indians living along the river to bathe in the water or use it for cooking.

How has the Indian practice of cremating their dead been a problem for the river?

• People are not allowed to go near the river when cremations are taking place.

• The banks along the river regularly catch fire and threaten Indian homes built there.

• Factory owners cannot use water once human ashes have been thrown into it.

• Factory owners cannot use water once human ashes have been thrown into it.

Why has the Indian government had such a hard time making much progress in cleaning up the Ganges River?

• Most people in India do not feel the river is polluted so they are not worried about it.

• India's combination of a growing population and the fact that it is a sacred river to the Hindu people makes this process difficult.

• Few people have gotten sick from the water in the Ganges River, so it is hard to get money for clean-up operations.

• The government of India has not made the cleaning up of the Ganges River one of it's goals.

Why are the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers so important to the population and economy of China and India?

• Water from the rivers are used to irrigate the local deserts.

• The rivers are international borders between China and India.

• People can use rivers to get over the Himalayan Mountains.

• The rivers supply millions of people with water for drinking, irrigation, and industrial uses.