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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| show | A seasonal wind. Summer monsoon winds in South Asia usually bring rain to that region.
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| What is the orographic effect? | show 🗑
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| What is rain shadow? | show 🗑
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| show | Floods can destroy property and take lives, crops destroyed when fields get flooded, diseases spread, drinking water can be polluted.
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| What are some adaptations to living in Dhaka, Bangladesh's climate? | show 🗑
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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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| show | People raise livestock in addition to crops, farmers use drip irrigation, families survive by eating wild grass (samas).
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| show | Dry and pleasant.
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| How are Calcutta's months June-September? | show 🗑
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| show | Farmers get needed water for dry fields, flooding is common, the sewer system gets blocked up, transportation suffers, diseases spread.
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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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| show | Only 29 inches of rain falls in a year, crops are hard to grow.
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| What are some adaptations to living in Pune, India's climate? | show 🗑
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| What is doubling time? | show 🗑
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| What is a famine? | show 🗑
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| show | The annual rate of population growth. This percentage is calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. It does not include people moving into or out of a country.
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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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| show | They will produce hydroelectric power from the three gorges dam.
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| What are benefits of the three gorges dam? | show 🗑
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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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| What are China's three goals? | show 🗑
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| show | Brought economic growth to China, China's special economic zones have created millions of new jobs.
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| What are costs of the special economic zones? | show 🗑
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| What is arable land? | show 🗑
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| What is arithmetic population density? | show 🗑
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| What is physiologic population density? | show 🗑
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| What is population distribution? | show 🗑
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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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| Is the average home in Japan larger or smaller than an average home in the U.S.? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Face masks.
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| What do Japanese recycle to reduce trash? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Shoes were not just for sports anymore, they became casual shoes for everyday use, everyone began wearing them as fashion items, improve performance and comfort.
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| show | Upper: cotton, nylon, leather. Midsole: plastic, foam padding, airbags filled with pressurized gas. Tread: synthetic rubber, coal, oil.
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| Why does the leather come from Texas and Venezuela? | show 🗑
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| show | It's an oil rich country.
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| Why does the synthetic rubber come from Taiwan? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Ports for shipping material, the factories are already there, there are large pools of low-wage workers.
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| What is a typical sneaker distribution route from Asia to Alabama like? | show 🗑
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| What three modes of transportation are used to move sneakers from Asia to stores in the United States? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Volcanoes.
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| show | Greater freedom.
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| What is one way people adapt to the semiarid climate of Jodhpur? | show 🗑
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| What lets you ship stuff for free and pass tarriffs? | show 🗑
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| What is Southeast Asia made of? | show 🗑
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| show | Near a coastline.
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| What have special economic zones been most successful in increasing? | show 🗑
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| show | One of the world's wettest capitals.
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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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| How do you get physiologic population density? | show 🗑
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| show | The population divided by the total land area.
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| What are the benefits of the three gorges dam? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Land that is suitable for farming.
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| show | U.S.
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| What is the main goal of China's one-child policy? | show 🗑
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| What has affected Japan's population distribution? | show 🗑
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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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| show | International trade.
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| show | The weight of air pushing down on Earth.
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