South Asia Vocab

The process of adjusting to the surrounding conditions

• Adaptation

• Changing

• Monsoon

• Chameleon

Political, economic, and cultural domination imposed on a society by another society

• Monarchy

• Imperialism

• Parliament

• Judaism

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

• Pizza crust

• Earthquake

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangea

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

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Storm

• Monsoon

The principle of causing no harm to other living things

• Ahimsa

• PBIS

• Forgiveness

• Hinduism

A person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable

• Chill

• Emo

• Pacifist

• Falcon

The religious belief that the soul after death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human or animal depending on how well the person lived morally

• Carne Asada

• Re-born

• Reincarnation

• Reinstated

The effect from your action that can be a good effect or bad effect

• Ahimsa

• Pacifist

• Karma

• Buddist

Someone who does not eat meat

• Pacifist

• Hippie

• Catholic

• Vegetarian

River runs through northern India and is sacred to those who follow Hinduism

• Nile

• Amazon

• Ganges

• Tigris