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The ________ connects Afghanistan to China.

A) Indus River
B) Wakhan Corridor
C) Aral Sea
D) Opium Superhighway

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Due to Soviet relocation programs, today Uzbeks are found only in Uzbekistan.

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About ________% of Afghanistan's population is Turkmen.

Astana, Kazakhstan experiences hot summer, cold winters, and arid conditions; these conditions are typical of ________ climates.

Describe the plight of the Tajik male laborer after independence and evaluate whether migration abroad or staying the countryside will provide the best opportunity in the future.

About 90% of laborers migrating from Tajikistan have gone to the country of:

Describe the attraction of opium production to farmers in Afghanistan and suggest alternative solutions to the elimination of the drug production.

Evaluate which has had a more destabilizing influence in Central Asia and Afghanistan: colonization or mixed ethnic composition.

Evaluate which of the ecological disasters of the Soviet period have the most negative effects on Central Asia.

Because Kazakhstan has adequate precipitation for large-scale grain production in the north, it lacks areas of irrigation agriculture.

The highest urbanization rate in Central Asia is found in:

About ________% of Afghanistan's population is Tajik.

Although the soils of Central Asia's steppes are generally rich, much like those of the prairie lands of the U.S. Great Plains, a steppe environment differs from a prairie environment in its generally lower and more variable:

Most of Uzbekistan's energy comes from natural gas.

- The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers flow into the:

About ________% of Afghanistan's population is Hazara.

The Taliban movement began in the madrasahs, or ________, financed by the Saudi Arabian government and located on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

- The Balochi ethnic group predominates in southern:

-The city of Dushanbe is located in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley.

- Just south of the Aral Sea, the dominant ethnic group is the: