South Asia/ India review

What is another name for South Asia?

• Southern Asia
• Indian Subcontinent
• Hinduville
• Gondwanaland

More than 1/5 or ________ of the world's people live on the South Asian Peninsula.

• 10%
• 15%
• 20%
• 25%

India was a part of what supercontinent?

• Gondwanaland
• Pakistanland
• Turkmenistan
• Tubthumper

What is the highest & longest mountain range in the world?

• Himalayas
• Karakoram
• Mount Fuji
• Mount Everest

What is the highest mountain peak in the world at 29,028 feet above sea level?

• Himalayas
• Karakoram
• Mount Fuji
• Mount Everest

What is the world's second highest mountain range?

• Himalayas
• Karakoram
• Mount Fuji
• Mount Everest

Which one of the following is not one of the 3 rivers of the Indo-Gangetic Plain?

• Ganges River
• Indus River
• Brahmaputra River
• Yellow River

Western Ghats

• -meets with the Ganges River to form Bangladesh's low delta plain.
• -covers much of the southern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent.
• -steep, rugged hills that face Arabian Sea.
• -hills that face the Bay of Bengal.

Eastern Ghats

• -meets with the Ganges River to form Bangladesh's low delta plain.
• -covers much of the southern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent.
• -steep, rugged hills that face Arabian Sea.
• -hills that face the Bay of Bengal.

Deccan Plateau

• -meets with the Ganges River to form Bangladesh's low delta plain.
• -covers much of the southern two-thirds of the Indian subcontinent.
• -steep, rugged hills that face Arabian Sea.
• -hills that face the Bay of Bengal.