Unit 9: South Asia Realm

An area of spatial change where two realms join (ex: Afghanistan)

• border state

• transition zone

• periphery

• frontier

A seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation. Creates two distinct seasons based on precipitation.

• Monsoon

• Tropical Cyclone

• Hurricane

• Hail

The strict social stratification and residential segregation of people- specifically in India's Hindu society- on the basis of ancestry and occupation.

• Socio-Economic class

• Caste System

• Feudal System

• Apartheid

Taliban

• broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s and became one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations after carrying out the attacks of September 11, 2001.

• a Roman Catholic order of religious men founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, noted for its educational, missionary, and charitable works.

• a nonprofit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue

• A brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s. Returned to power in 2020.

Al Qaeda

• a Sunni Islamist military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War and incorporates elements of Somali nationalism into its Islamist cause.

• a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s

• 1. a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.

• an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

Relates to variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations.

It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context.

• physical geography

• climate

• population geography

• cultural geography

Population Pyramid

• a measurement of population per unit land area

• Graphic representation of a national population according to age and gender.

• human migration, or the physical relocation of human individuals, families, and societies

• The way people have arranged themselves in geographic space.

a country geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers. Its existence can sometimes be thought to prevent conflict between them.

• safety zone

• border nation

• demilitarized zone

• buffer state

Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of government and is not taxed.

• Hawkers

• Informal Sector

• Artisans

• free market

Term meaning "the oppressed"- used for the lowest caste in India's caste system.

• Brahmins

• Dalits

• Kshatriyas

• Vaishyas