Weather & Earth
This large sea sits right next to India and gives the monsoon winds their very first blast of wet, rainy air.
What is The Arabian Sea?
This super popular food has to grow in giant, flooded puddles, making it the most monsoon-dependent crop in India.
What is rice?
Close to half of all the workers in India have a job in this field.
What is agriculture/Farming?
This word means a seasonal wind that brings heavy rains to Southern Asia.
What is a Monsoon?
If the rain doesn't show up, farmers use diesel fuel to power these machines to suck water out of the ground.
What are water pumps?
This giant mountain range blocks the monsoon clouds like a huge wall, forcing them to dump all their rain onto India.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
Besides corn and rice, this tall, sweet plant relies on the heavy monsoon rains to grow big and juicy.
What is sugarcane?
When the monsoon is late, food becomes hard to find, which causes this problem in grocery stores.
What is high prices/infaltion?
This word means bringing water to fields using pipes or pumps instead of waiting for rain.
What is irrigation?
When crops fail because of a bad monsoon, poor farmers often have to borrow money, putting them into this stressful situation.
What is debt?
This famous river area is where a huge amount of India's crops are grown because it gets plenty of monsoon rain.
What is the Ganges River area?
This two-word nickname is given to any large region of land that is perfect for growing massive amounts of grains.
What is the grain belt?
Out of all the money India makes as a country, farming brings in about this percentage of it.
What is 18%?
This is a long period of time where there is not enough rain, causing rivers and dirt to dry up.
What is a drought?
Monsoons are important because they fill up these massive, man-made lakes so people have drinking water during the dry winter.
What are reservoirs (or dams)?
A monsoon isn't just a regular rainstorm; it is a special wind that completely changes its direction based on this.
What is the season?
If the monsoon rains come down too hard all at once, they can cause this disaster, which drowns and ruins the crops.
What is a flood?
To help farmers when it doesn't rain, the government pays for this so they can run water pumps.
What is diesel fuel?
This word describes how people in India feel when the monsoon rains are late.
What is worry?
India uses water to make electricity! This word describes power created by spinning turbines with rushing water.
What is hydroelectric?
This ocean weather pattern happens on the other side of the world, but it can mess up India's weather and make the monsoon late.
What is El Niño?
Monsoon rains in India are important for crops like rice, sugar and?
What is corn?
Because the country's money depends so much on the weather, experts say the Indian economy is like taking a big gamble on this.
What is the Monsoon rains?
This word describes what the monsoon rains are for farming in India.
What is important?
A missed monsoon creates a double-whammy emergency because people lose both their food crops and this other basic need.
What is clean drinking water?