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A layer of permanently frozen ground.
Permafrost
A social class an person is born into and cannot change.
Caste
. To refuse to buy items from a particular country or company.
Boycott
Describing a society based on herding animals.
Pastoral
What country borders India to the west?
Pakistan
A partly dry grassland often found at the edge of a desert.
Steppe
A home or village based industry in which people make simple goods using their own equipment.
Cottage Industries
An area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of the river.
Delta
Hiring workers from other countries to do a set of jobs.
Outsourcing
What is the main religion of Central Asia?
Islam
The spread of control of nuclear power, partivularly the knowledge of how to construct a nuclear weapon.
Nuclear Proliferation
A farm that is owned by the government but run by a group of farmers who work together.
Collective
Who is the famous leader from India who lead independence from the British through civil disobedience?
“Mahatma” Gandhi
What year did India obtain independence from Great Britain?
1947
What is the main religion of India?
Hindu
Most of South Asia’s weather is directly influenced by wind patterns called?
Monsoons
What mountain chain divides Europe from Asia?
Ural Mountains
What is the remote, frozen region of Russia called?
Siberia
What large inland lake nearly dried up because of mismanagement and too much irrigation?
Aral
what 3 regions of Asia are on this exam?
Central Asia, Caucasus, South Asia
. The subcontinent of Asia is separated by what?
Hindu Kush, Karakoram Range, and Himalaya
Which area has become the source of political conflict between India and Pakistan?
Kashmir
The Russian Revolution happened in what year?
1917
Which country is not part of the Caucasus region?
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan Georgia,
Turkmenistan
What 2 Central Asian countries begin with "K"?
Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan