India & China Vocabulary Review

wind bringing heavy rains to Asia in summer

• hurricane
• monsoon
• tornado
• tsunami

Florida is a good example of a/an ___________.

• plateau
• island
• peninsula
• country

The belief in __________ is shared by both Buddhists and Hindus.

• castes
• many gods
• reincarnation
• Eightfold Path

Religion started by Siddhartha Gautama

• Buddhism
• Hinduism
• Jainism
• Christianity

A god in human form

• nirvana
• avatar
• loess
• ascetic

In _____________, there are no gods.

• Hinduism
• Jainism
• Buddhism
• Communism

Oldest and most popular religion in India

• Buddhism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Hinduism

A person who gives up worldly pleasures

• Buddha
• ascetic
• karma
• avatar

A barren, arid region with less than 10 inches of rain per year.

• plateau
• dessert
• plain
• desert

The ________ system dividing people into social classes came from the Hindu Vedas.

• Vedas
• religion
• Sanskrit
• caste