Social Studies
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| Define suncontinent. | show 🗑
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| Giva an example of a subcontinent. | show 🗑
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| What is the orographic effect? | show 🗑
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| What is a rain shadow? | show 🗑
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| show | the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on any point of Earth's surface
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| What does high pressure cause? | show 🗑
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| show | lots of clouds, precipitation, cooler
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| show | a seasonal wind that brings either dry or moist air
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| What does a climagraph show? | show 🗑
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| show | believed you were born into a specific caste(group) and in your next life you could be reborn and rise into a higher caste if you remained a good person
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| What are the levels of the caste system? | show 🗑
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| show | actions throughout life determine how they're reborn(good or bad) what goes around comes around
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| What do Hindus believe about reincarnation? | show 🗑
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| show | The Five Pillars:
1. statement of faith
2. prayer
3. giving alms to the poor
4. fasting(during Ramadan)
5. the pilgrimage to Mecca(made once in life)
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| What did Gandhi want for women? | show 🗑
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| What did Ghandhi want with independence? | show 🗑
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| show | he was against this discrimination, all people should have equal opportunity, not be stuck with what their parents did
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| What is comparative advantage? | show 🗑
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| show | good english speakers, lower wages, and a higher population of workers
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| What is the US's comparative advantage over India? | show 🗑
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| show | hiring someone outside a company to do work that was once done by the company's workers
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| What is information technology? | show 🗑
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| show | There should be laws about: -minimum wage ($7.25 in US) -maximum number of hours a kid can work (3 hrs. school day and 8 hrs. non-school day in US) -minimum age requirement (14 in US) -no work during school times, forced to go to school
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| What are more things that can be done to protect children of Pakistan? | show 🗑
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| show | the International Date Line
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| How many world time zones are there? Why? | show 🗑
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| show | 15 degrees of longitude
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| Explain why time zone boundaries are not completely straight? | show 🗑
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| Name the four major United States time zones. | show 🗑
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| What are some inventions part of the global revolution in information technology? | show 🗑
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| show | democracy
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| show | Bangalore, India
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| show | Hinduism
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| show | Islam
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| Describe what happened in the partition of India and Pakistan. | show 🗑
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| show | brings dry air from the north to India and creates little rain fall
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| show | brings air from the Arabian Sea(southwest) and brings heavy rains
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| What are some positive affects of monsoons? | show 🗑
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| show | -floods destroy homes -floods make it hard for crops to survive, and make planting/harvesting impossible -traffic halts (streets flooded)
-schools, businesses close down(no one get to work)
-floods pollute city's drinking water
-diseases spread rapi
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| What causes summer monsoons? | show 🗑
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