Southeast Asia Geography quiz

a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.   

• subcontinent

• Aryans

 a gray crystalline allotropic form of carbon which occurs as a mineral in some rocks and can be made from coke. It is used as a solid lubricant, in pencils, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors.

• Red Rock

• Graphite

 a sacred body of water to Hindus that begins high in the Himalaya Mountains and empties out into the Bay of Bengal.    

• Nile River

• Ganges River

a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 kilometers) along the border between India and Tibet.

• Appalachian

• Himalayas

 an ancient Indo-Aryan language that is the classical language of India and of Hinduism.          

• SanSkrit

• Dalits

 a member of a people speaking an Indo-European (or specifically Indo-Iranian) language, or of an ancient people thought to have spoken the hypothetical proto-Indo-European language.

• Farmers

• Aryans

 (in the traditional Indian caste system) a person who belongs to one of the lowest castes, outside the four main castes in the varna system; a member of the Scheduled Castes.           

• Aryans

• Dalits

 a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon ), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry monsoon ). the rainy season accompanying the wet monsoon.

• Monsoon

• Tsunami

  a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.            

• Sikhism

• Islam

a port in W India, capital of Mahrashtra state, on the Arabian Sea:

• Pearl Harbor

• Mumbai