Unit #7 South Asia

The effort to use modern techniques and science to increase food production in poorer countries.

• Monsoon

• Green Revolution

• Establish

• Cottage Industry

a floodplain on which flooding rivers have deposited silt

• alluvial plain
• cottage industry
• mercantilism

in Asia, a seasonal wind that is crucial for the economy but is also destructive

• tsunami

• monsoon
• hurricane

a large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it

• subcontinent
• imperiablism
• yielding

In India, a group that defines one's occupation and social position

• Maslow

• jati
• panchayat

a storm with heavy rains and high winds that blow in a circular pattern around an area of low atmospheric pressure

• cyclone
• alluvial plain
• reincarnation

a business that employs workers in their home

• cottage industry
• tsunami
• entitlement

The narrow crossing in the mountains between Afghanistan & Pakistan is called the

• Western Ghats

• Khyber Pass

• Silk Road

A program begun in the 1960s to modernize farming in India; increased yield of crops such as wheat and rice

• sharecropping

• subsistence farming

• green revolution

According to the theory of continental drift, how were the Himalaya formed?

• through volcanic activity

• through the collision of tectonic plates

• through subduction on the ocean floor