Asia Geography Study Guide #2
Answer KEY:
1. Bangladesh
2. Bay of Bengal
3. Transportation and water supply
4. Factories dump industrial waste and chemicals in the river
5. Bodies of dead animals and ashes of humans cause river pollution
6. To clean up the river
7. Growing population and run off from farming
8. Water for drinking, irrigation, and industrial uses
9. East China Sea
10. Chemicals from fertilizers run into the river
11. Arsenic
12. Oxygen levels in the water go down and fish die
13. They need a reliable source of hydroelectric power
14. The garbage could go into landfills instead of the river
15. Rapid growing population, heavy industry and many cars
16. Cooking over wood or coal fires
17. Rain has decreased and temperatures are cooler
18. They do not want to slow economic growth
19. City’s air pollution
20. Use of coal-burning power plants
21. Respiratory and heart disease
22. Improve city’s air quality
23. Can harm plants and animals
24. Long term costs of pollution are more expensive than clean-up
25. Monsoons
26. Along the great rivers and fertile valleys
27. Hot and dry, mild and temperate, rainy and subtropical
28. Area with milder climates
29. Ocean currents
30. Mountainous and cool
31. Mix of mountains, river valleys, and mild temperatures
32. Warm and tropical
33. Mountain ranges have protected India from northern invaders
34. River provides fertile soil for farming
35. More farmland and fewer mountains
36. City provides markets, jobs and education not available in rural areas
37. Built farming terraces along the mountain slopes
38. Depend on fishing and imported food
39. Deposit of coal, water, soil, trees, etc.