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INSTRUCTIONS1) Choose a category2) Correctly answer questions/statements3) If your wrong you loose the amount of money you were playing for4) Whoever has the most money at the end of the game wins.
Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader? ASIA
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Economy Economy Political Features
Physical FeaturesPhysical Features Major Religions
ClimateClimate History
GovernmentGovernment Types of Governments
Population distributionPopulation distribution Environmental issues
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Economy $100
What are the four basic economic systems used by countries?
Answer
Traditional, command, market and mixed
Economics
Other than mixed economic
systems, what does India and
China have in common in terms of
their economic systems?
Answer
The both have major rural areas
and depend on farming which are
traditional economic systems
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Economy $200
What are the three basic
economic questions for which
every country must consider to run
their economy?
Answer
What will be produce?, How it
will be produced?, and For
whom it will be produced?
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Economy $300
What are the basic units of
currency used in India, China and
Japan?
Answer
India uses the rupee, China
uses the Yuan and Japan the
Yen
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Economy $400
What farming practices have
allowed the China and Japan to
increase production?
Answer
Terrace farming (farming on
hill sides)
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Economy $500
Explain how most countries have a
mixed economy located on a
continuum between pure market
and pure command.
Answer A mixed economy has elements of
command and market economic
systems. There is government
control and individual freedoms to
decide the three basic economic
questions.
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Economy $600
Compare and contrast the
economic systems in India, China,
Japan, and North Korea.
Answer
India, China and Japan has
mixed economic systems.
North Korea has a command
economy.
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Economy $700
Explain how specialization
encourages trade between
countries.
Answer
Countries specialize in trading
because of unequal distribution of
global resources. Exporting and
importing certain goods and
services they need helps to
successfully run their economies
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Economy $800
Compare and contrast different
types of trade barriers, such as
tariffs, quotas, and embargos.
Answer Tariffs are taxes on imports,
quotas place limits on trade,
and embargos are ban on
trade.
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Economy $900
Explain why international trade
requires a system for exchanging
currencies between nations.
Answer The prices that one country has
for currency have different
values compared to others.
Without an exchange rate, global
trade would be practically
impossible.
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Economy $1000
Explain the relationship between
investment in human capital
(education and training) and gross
domestic product (GDP).
Answer Asian countries investment in workers
education, training, healthcare and
positive working environments will
increase production of products and
services and spending to produce more
income for businesses. This will increase
the GDP.
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Economy $1,000 Explain the relationship between
investment in capital (factories,
machinery, and technology) and
gross domestic product (GDP).
How do they relate to one another?
Answer Asian countries investment in
capital will increase production of
quality goods and services
thereby providing increased
consumer spending which will
increase the GDP.
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Economy $1,000
Describe the role of
entrepreneurship.
Answer Entrepreneurship typically
benefits a country’s economy
because it creates jobs and
spending which helps to increase
the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP).
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Economy $1,000
Describe the role of natural
resources in a country’s economy.
Answer
Natural resources are
developed by nations to
provide income through trade
(imports and exports) to
support their economies.
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Physical Features $100
What natural feature forms most of
India’s northern border and
separates the country from the
rest of Asia
Answer Himalayan
Mountains
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Physical Features $200
The coldest desert on Earth that
covers more than 500,000 square
miles located in northern China
Answer
Gobi
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Physical Features $300 What is the name of the river
located in East Asia and flows
through Laos, Cambodia, and
Vietnam and empties into the
South China Sea?
Answer
Mekong
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Physical Features $400
What is the name of the desert
located in Western China,
north of the Himalayan
Mountains?
Answer
Taklimakan
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Physical Features $500
What body of water is west of
Japan?
Answer
Sea of Japan
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Physical Features $600
What two major rivers support
China’s eastern region?
Answer Huang He
(Yellow) River
and Yangtze
(Chang Jiang)
River
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Climate $100
What is the reason for low
populations in the desert regions
of India and China?
Answer
The regions has limited water
resources
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Climate $400
Describe how the mountain, desert, and water features affect population in terms of where people live, type of work they do and how they travel?
Answer1. Southern Asia’s mountains and deserts
are less populated than other areas. People in theses regions work as farmers or herders and travel by walking or animal. The water features areas more populated, people work as fisherman, farmers, merchants or traders. They travel using water vehicles.
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Government $100
What are the types of governments in India, China and Japan?
Answer
India has federal republic, China
has communist and Japan a
constitutional monarchy
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Government $200
What is common among India,
China and Japan governments?
Answer
All have three branches and
citizens vote in some capacity
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Population distribution $100
Where is Asia most heavily populated?
Answer
Near the coasts, rivers and other
water resources
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Political Features $100
What two countries make up the Korean Peninsula?
Answer
North Korea and South Korea
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Political Features $200
What is the name of the largest
country in Southern Asia
Answer
India
Political Features
What is the name of the country in
Southeastern Asia whose capital is
Hanoi?
Answer
Vietnam
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Political Features $300
In general, what assumption can
be made about countries like Japan
and China with higher literacy
rates?
Answer
Higher literacy rates results
in increased economy and
standard of living.
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Major Religions $100
What is the most practiced religion in India?
Answer
Hinduism
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Major Religions $200
This religion originated and is
practice by many people in Japan.
It believes in Kami (a spirit exist in
things of nature).
Answer
Shintoism
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Major Religions $300
Most importantly, this tradition was
instrumental in shaping Chinese
social relationships and moral
thought.
Answer
Confucianism
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Major Religions $400 A belief in reincarnation and after many
life cycles, if a person releases their
attachment to desire and the self, they
can attain Nirvana. This is a state of
liberation and freedom from suffering.
Answer Buddhism
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Major Religions $500
Explain the differences between an
ethnic group and a religious group.
Answer
An ethnic group has the language,
religion, history and customs that
bonds people, whereas religion has
the belief or religious practices as
the connection
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History $100
What is nationalism?
Answer
devotion and loyalty to one's own
nation; patriotism.
History $100
Describe how nationalism led to
independence in India and Vietnam.
Answer
The nations used nationalism work to free themselves by uniting to seek independence from European control. Leaders often ask all ethnic groups to bond together in based on pride and loyalty for their nations freedom.
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History $200
Describe the impact of Mohandas
K. Gandhi’s belief in non-violent
protest?
Answer Gandhi became the most
important leader of the Indian
independence movement and
used a strategy of nonviolent
mass protest.
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History $300
Why did the United States get
involved in the Korean and
Vietnam Wars?
Answer The United States believed if
the countries fell to
communism, then other nations
would also, so its mission was
stop the spread of communism
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History $400 What reason did the United States
occupied Japan after World War II?
Answer To help rebuild Japan’s
infrastructure (public systems
and services) and become a
peaceful democratically
governed nation
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History $100
What is communism?
Answer
A system of government in which
the state plans and controls the
economy in which all goods are
equally shared by the people.
History $500
Describe the impact of
Communism in China in terms of
Mao Zedong
Answer The Chinese leader who brought
communism to China and instituted
several government programs to
strengthen its support among its
people
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History $600
What was the Great Leap Forward?
Answer
Economic polices aimed at
making China equal to leading
world powers in industry and
agriculture instituted by Mao
Zedong in 1958.
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History $700
Describe China’s
Cultural/Communist Revolution
under leader, Mao Zedong
Answer From 1966-1976 in China, Mao Zedong
launched programs to wipe out past
culture and history as well as foreign
influence. The Cultural Revolution
resulted in beatings, terror, mass
jailing, and the deaths of thousands.
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History $800
What led to the events that
occurred at Tiananmen Square in
1989?
Answer Human rights abuses by China’s
Communist government led to
protest led by students in the capital
of Beijing. The event resulted in
hundreds of deaths, thousands
injured and many more imprisoned.
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Types of Governments $100
Government where
representatives are freely elected
to serve the interest of the people.
Answer
Republic
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Types of Governments $200
A government system that may
have a Prime Minister elected, real
power is in a cabinet composed of
members of the legislature.
Answer
Parliamentary
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Types of Governments $300 Government that has a king or
queen with unlimited power and
citizens have little participation in
the political process
Answer
Absolute Monarchy
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Types of Governments $400
A government system where the
federal and local level
governments work together to run
the country
Answer
Federal
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Environmental Issues $100
What are causes and effects of pollution on the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers?
Answer
The daily use, religions practices and industry wastes has caused pollution, many diseases and deaths among China and India’s people
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Environmental Issues $200
Describe the causes and effects of
air pollution and flooding in India
and China.
Answer
Industry and vehicle pollute the
air. The rivers regularly flood over
its banks, often destroying crops,
homes and lives.
$10,000 Question Topic
Governments
$10,000 Question Compare and contrast India, China, and
Japan’s governments distinguishing the type of
government, structure, and the role of the
citizen in terms of voting rights and personal
freedoms.
$10,000 Answer
India is a federal republic, China is communist and Japan has a constitutional monarchy. All three nations have three branches and citizens participate in voting.
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