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26 Cards in this Set
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Afghanistan Bangladesh China Cyprus India Iraq Japan Malaysia Vietnam Baghdad Beijing Jerusalem Riyadh Seoul Tokyo |
Afghanistan - M Bangladesh - EE China - S Cyprus - E India - R Iraq - F Japan - Y Malaysia - FF Vietnam - DD Baghdad - G Beijing - V Jerusalem - D Riyadh - I Seoul - BB Tokyo - Z |
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Arabian Strait Bering Strait Caspian Sea Ganges River Indian Ocean Mekong River Red Sea Asia Minor Gobi Desert Indochina Korean Peninsula South China Sea New Guinea Tibet Ural Mountains |
Arabian Strait - D Bering Strait - O Caspian Sea - F Ganges River - H Indian Ocean - S Mekong River - R Red Sea - C Asia Minor - X Gobi Desert - Y Indochina - T Korean Peninsula - N South China Sea - U New Guinea - W Tibet - L Ural Mountains - G
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____ is the highest point in Japan. |
Mt. Fuji |
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____ is Japan's largest island. |
Honshu |
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What is the full name of the militant organization that uses terrorism to demand land for an independent Palestinian state? |
Palestine Liberation Organization |
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Where is the lowest point on land? |
Dead Sea |
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What island provided refuge for the Chinese Nationalist after the Chinese Revolution? |
Taiwan |
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What is the earth's largest and highest mountain range? |
Himalayas |
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Muslims regard what two Saudi Arabian cities as holy? |
Mecca and Medina |
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What area is called the "Crossroads of the Ancient World "? |
Middle East |
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What man- made body of water separates Asia from Africa? |
Suez Canal |
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What two mountain ranges divide Europe from Asia? |
Ural and Caucasus |
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What is the only country in Asia where Catholicism is the majority religion? |
The Philippines |
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What modern empire controlled Central Asia for most of the 20th century? |
Soviet Union |
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Both Arabs and Jews are descendants of the biblical patriarch ____. |
Abraham |
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The world's most populous country, ____, has a population of over 1 billion. |
China |
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What are some of the countries located on the Indian subcontinent? |
Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan |
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The Amu Darya and the Syr Darya are the two principal rivers of ____. |
Central Asia |
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____ provides the major source of income for many major Middle Eastern countries. |
Oil |
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Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia occupy the island of ____. |
Borneo |
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North and South Korea were divided along the ____ parallel. |
38th |
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The world's highest point on land is ____. |
Mt. Everest |
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China's two most important rivers are the Huang He and the ____. |
Yangtze |
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Because India's main religion, ____, forbids the slaughter of cattle, India has abundant livestock but is one of the poorest countries in the world. |
Hinduism |
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What is the world's longest fortification? |
Great Wall of China |
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In what year was the modern state of Israel created? |
1948 |
