South and East Asia

Seasonal winds that affect climate in the southern areas of Asia, resulting in wet spring and summer months and dry winter months

• Monsoons

• subcontinents

• typhoons

• tsunami

A large landmass that is geographically set off from the larger continent

• tsunami

• subcontinent

• monsoon

• plate tectonics

A severe tropical storm characterized by high winds that originates in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

• Monsoon

• tsunami

• typhoon

• subcontinent

Theory that explains the process that formed the continents and explains why the earth’s crust shifts

• monsoon

• typhoon

• plate tectonics

• subcontinent

Large ocean wave that is caused by an earthquake along the floor of the ocean

• typhoon

• monsoon

• subcontinent

• tsunami

Area of fertile soil deposited by floodwaters

• delta

• atoll

• monsoon

• alluvial plain

Small, ring-shaped island formed when coral builds up around the edges of an ancient, underwater volcano

• monsoon

• atoll

• delta

• cyclone

Land that builds up where rivers meet a larger body of water, such as a sea

• delta

• atoll

• subcontinent

• alluvial plain

the social class into which a person is born

• varna

• reincarnation

• atoll

• monsoon

The Hindu belief that after a person dies, his or her soul is reborn into another body

• atoll

• typhoon

• reincarnation

• subcontinent