Physical Features
Climate
Caste System
Vocabulary
Extras (double points)
100

These were created by two continental plates colliding creating a natural boundary between China and India.

What are the Himalayas?

100

Blow moist air from across the Indian Ocean that brings heavy rains

Summer Monsoons

100

What is the Caste System?

The division of classes in India.

100
The dominant religion of India is this religion.
What is Hinduism?
100

The advancement in this specific technology has helped India become the number 1 country for outsourcing 

The internet

200

This river provides water for agriculture (irrigation systems) for thousands of people and is sacred to Hindus.

Ganges River

200

Blow dry air across the mountains that brings drought and no rain to the region

Winter monsoons

200
This is the very lowest of the castes...so low they're not even considered a caste.
What is the Untouchables or Dalits?
200
This cycle of rebirth, a basic belief in Hinduism, is called?
What is reincarnation?
200
This humble Indian man was instrumental in helping India achieve independence.
Who is Gandhi?
300

Mountain range that stop the moist air preventing them to move north.

The Himalayas

300

All these natural disasters are found in South Asia.

Floods, heavy rains, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis.

300
This is the Hindu name for the Priest class of the caste system.
What is Brahmin?
300

Taking jobs from one country to another country to save money is known as

Outsourcing

300

When India got its independence, it was divided into which two countries and religions?

Pakistan=Muslims, India=Hinduism

400
The tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, is located in this country,
What is Nepal?
400

This natural disaster in India happens for various reasons like heavy monsoons and silt deposits along the major river systems which create low lying areas. 

What is flooding?

400
The Hindu name for the merchant class (skilled workers)
What is vaisyas?
400
A belief in what goes around, comes around.
What is karma?
400

The definition of Monsoon

Change in winds usually seasonal winds (summer, winter)

500

Civilization that started around the Indus River

Indus River Valley Civilization

500
Negative effects of the monsoons season
What are flooding, droughts, extreme weather (cyclones), starvation?
500
This is the Hindu name for the warrior caste.
What is the Kshatriyas?
500

What are Silts?

What is Sudras?

500

Explain the Kashmir conflict.

England divided India into India and Pakistan. Pakistan feels they should control Kashmir because the majority are Muslims.

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