Physical Geography
History
Government and Economics
Vocabulary
Islam and Hinduism
100
A seasonal wind that brings intense rainfall during part of the year.
What is a monsoon?
100
This is the control by one power over a dependent area or people.
What is colonialism
100
This is the general term for the factors that cause people to migrate to new places.
What are push-pull factors
100
This is a form of government in which citizens make decisions either directly or indirectly through elected representatives.
What is a democracy
100
This is the Hindu belief that after death, a person's soul is reborn into another physical life.
What is reincarnation
200
A group of interacting organisms and their natural environment.
What is an ecosystem?
200
This is the social system in which some are deemed "untouchable".
What is the caste system
200
The shifting of jobs and workers outside of a company
What is outsourcing
200
The practice of making small loans to people starting their own businesses.
What is microlending
200
Name the two countries in South Asia in which Islam is primarily practiced
Pakistan and Bangladesh
300
An area where a river deposits sediment as it empties into a body of water.
What is a delta?
300
This political and religious leader campaigned for civil disobedience, or the nonviolent disobeying of laws against the British.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi
300
An area of the city that is overly crowded, has unclean housing, and poor sanitation services. These are a problem in India.
What is a slum
300
This is the term for when too many people live in an area.
What is overpopulation
400
Name two results of the green revolution.
food production went up, and the environment was harmed.
400
This is the general term for a center of civilization from which ideas spread.
What is a cultural hearth
400
This super highway connects four major cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata
What is the Golden Quadrilateral
400
These farmers grow food for their families, and don't sell to anyone else
Who are subsistence farmers
400
This is the primary sacred writing in the Islam faith, it was originally written in Arabic.
What is the Qu'ran (Koran)
500
Name all seven countries in South Asia
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
500
India and Pakistan have been in a dispute over this region since their division after independence
What is Kashmir
500
This is the main difference between a developed and a developing country.
GDP per capita (per person)
500
This is a poem which makes up much of Hindu stories, traditions, and beliefs.
What is the Bhagavad Gita
500
This is the place in which Muslims make a pilgrimage to at least once in their lifetime if they are financially able
What is Mecca
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