South Asia Vocabulary

Fill in the blank: _______ means able to be counted on, dependable.

• questionable

• unreliable

• reliable

• doubtful

Fill in the blank: _______ means to decrease, lessen.

• decline

• increase

• expand

• grow

Fill in the blank: The Hindu people think the _______ is a goddess. This river rises in the Himalayas and empties in the Bay of Bengal. The people of Bangladesh use the water for everything (very polluted).

• Amazon River

• Yamuna River

• Nile River

• Ganges River

Fill in the blank: _______ is a journey undertaken for religious reasons.

• vacay

• pilgrimage

• expedition

• cruise

Fill in the blank: The _______ is a 1,800 mile river that starts high in the Himalayas in the Tibet region of China and flows through India and Pakistan.

• Indus River

• Ganges River

• Yangtze River

• Brahmaputra River

Fill in the blank: _______ is a seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region.

• hurricane

• tornado

• cyclone

• monsoon

Fill in the blank: _______ means extreme scarcity of food.

• surplus

• abundance

• plenty

• famine

Fill in the blank: An _______ is a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.

• levee

• dam

• embankment

• dike

Fill in the blank: To _______ means to expel or force to flee from home or homeland.

• displace

• replace

• relocate

• evict

Fill in the blank: _______ is the rebirth of a soul in a new body. (Taught in Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism)

• rejuvenation

• resurrection

• transmigration

• reincarnation