South Asia Vocabulary

Which of the following is a reason monsoons are bad?

• They provide much needed water for crops.

• They cause widespread flooding.

• They bring devastating tsunamis to the region.

• They cover India in many feet of snow and ice.

belief that after a person dies, his or her soul is reborn into another body

• polytheism

• monotheism

• reincarnation

• caste system

deposit of sediment at the mouth of a river and usually forms a triangle

• delta

• monsoon

• cyclone

• subcontinent

• archipielago

• peninsula

• beach

• delta

In India, monsoons bring water from which ocean?

• Pacific

• Atlantic

• Indian

• Arctic

refusing to follow certain laws as a form of nonviolent peaceful protest

• civil disobedience

• partition

• refugee

• demilitarized zone

land entirely surrounded by more land; no coastline

• landlocked

• subcontinent

• demilitarized zone (DMZ)

• cyclone

• mountain

• delta

• hill

• river

A(n) ______________ community is a city or town area that has a large amount of people, business, industry, and culture.

• Urban

• Rural

• Subcontinent

• Developing Country

• hill
• mountain
• plain
• valley