Atlas Assessment 8th Grade
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Use pages 24-25 to answer the following questions:
What large peninsula lies to the east of the Red Sea?
Arabian
What mountain range divides Europe from Asia?
Ural
What sea lies between the Philippine Islands and the Malay Peninsula?
South China
What is the largest lake in Asia?
Caspian Sea
Use pages 102 – 103 to answer the following questions:
What Asian nation does the Equator run through?
Indonesia
What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
What mountain range runs along the border of China, India, Nepal and Bhutan?
Himalaya
According the UN Human Development Index, what 3 Asian countries have the lowest quality of life?
Pakistan, Yemen, Nepal
Use pages 104 – 105 to answer the following questions (you may need to refer back to page 102):
Which gets more precipitation in the month of July—New Delhi, Shanghai, or Vladivostock?
New Delhi
In India, what direction do the dry monsoon winds blow?
To the southwest
Of Indonesia’s islands, which one is most densely populated?
Java
How is the population density of the Arabian Peninsula affected by its climate?
Arid and semi arid climate = little rainfall = low population density
Why is western China’s population density so low and the east so high?
low in the west because it in mountain climate, cold temperatures, high altitude, high in the east because it is warm
temperate climate, river systems abound
Use page 107 to answer the following questions (you may need to refer back to page 102):
How much has the Aral Sea shrunk by?
40%
What four Asian countries have conducted nuclear tests?
India, Pakistan, Russia, China
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What country of Asia is facing the greatest environmental issues? Defend your answer with specific details from the
map.
Will vary but should be defended with evidence
Use the South Asia Physical-Political, Climate and Population Maps to answer the following questions:
What type of climate zone does Sri Lanka’s south west coast have?
Humid tropical
Which south Asian country has the highest average population density?
Bangladesh
Why is the population density so high in north eastern India?
Answers should include the benefit of climate and physical geography Humid subtropical climate and river systems
Use the Free Speech Map to answer the following questions:
Compare how journalists are treated in the Philippines, Nepal, and Indonesia.
Nepal – imprisoned, Indonesia – physically attacked, Philippines - killed
What country has no data? Why might that be?
Afghanistan – war, unstable government, no NGOs to collect data
What percentage of the world has the same ranking of press freedom as Cambodia?
38% not free
Use the Qin and Han Dynasties map to answer the following questions:
Of the two dynasties in Chinese history, which was larger?
Han
Which of the two dynasties lasted longer?
Han
Which empire was longer east to west in kilometers, the Roman or the Han?
Roman
Why did the Han dynasty expand its territorial control westward to Kashgar?
Control the Silk Road and trade
Use the Imperialism in East Asia/Pacific to 1914 to answer the following questions:
What country controlled the island of Taiwan in 1914?
Japan
What country claimed the largest amount of territory in East Asia and the Pacific in 1914?
Great Britain
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Why do you think these foreign countries claimed these territories as their own? What was the benefit?
Answers will vary but should present some deeper analysis – trade, territory, resources, power
Use the Beliefs Map to answer the following questions:
What is the main religion of India?
Hinduism
What is the main religion of Indonesia?
Islam
What is the world’s largest religion?
Christianity
Christianity and Islam both spread into Asia over the course of world history. Name a few Asian and Pacific region
countries that have adopted Christianity and Islam. What do you see as positive and negative aspects of the spread of
religion?
Philippines Christianity
Korea Christianity
Indonesia Islam
Malaysia Islam
Bangladesh Islam
Central Asia Islam
Answers will vary but should show analysis