Vocabulary
A seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in summer and reverses direction in the winter, bringing cold, dry air from Asia's interior.
What is Monsoon?
The world's highest mountain range. (Not highest mountain peak)
What is the Himalaya?
The most important river in India.
What is the Ganges River?
One of the most significant characteristics of India's population is its size. With over __________ people, it is second only to China in population.
What is 1.2 billion?
This dam is India's highest dam.
What is the Tehri Dam?
Rebirth in new bodies or forms of life.
What is reincarnation?
Lies at the foot of the Himalaya. World's longest alluvial plain.
The three major river systems.
What is the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Indus?
This language is the most widely spoken language in India.
What is Hindi?
One of the worst environmental disasters in history occurred in December 1984 in this central city of India.
The practice and business of recreational travel based on a concern for the environment.
What is ecotourism?
The highest mountain peak.
What is Mount Everest?
A river that flows mainly through Pakistan and empties into the Arabian Sea.
What is The Indus?
80% of people in India identify with this religion.
What is Hindu?
This percentage of India's forests are degraded.
What is 40 percent?
The actions by which one country is able to extend power to control another country.
What is imperialism?
The southern most tip of the subcontinent.
What is Cap Comorin?
This type of soil is deposited by moving water.
What is alluvial soil?
About half of India's people work in this industry.
What is agriculture?
This dollar amount was India's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011.
GDP - the value of the goods and services produced by India's people in a year.
What is $4.421 trillion?
A group that defines one's occupation and social position.
What is jati?
A group of about three dozen islands in the Arabian Sea.
What is the Lakshadweep?
What is Hindu?
This woman became the first female prime minister of India in 1966.
What is Indira Gandhi?
India won it's independence from Britain during this year.
What is 1947?