Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and comparison
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Compare Turkmenistan and Tajikistan by two features.
Turkmenistan – desert, gas and oil; Tajikistan – mountains, water and hydropower.
2
Where do people in Turkmenistan live and why?
In oases and along the Karakum Canal, because water is there.
3
In which parts of Tajikistan are sericulture and cotton growing developed? Write from the atlas.
In the low valleys – around Vakhsh, Hisor and Khujand.
4
Why does Tajikistan run an aluminium plant even without its own raw material?
Because aluminium production needs lots of electricity and the country has cheap hydropower.
5
Write the regions of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan where many Uzbeks live.
In Turkmenistan – Dashoguz and Lebap; in Tajikistan – Sughd and the Hisor area.