The colossal _______________ Mountains form a border between Indian and the rest of Asia.

The Himalayas are the world's ________mountains, towering more than five miles above sea level.

Himalaya means "home of snow" because the tallest peaks of the Himalayas are always covered with ​snow.

The Himalayas include Mount ____________, the tallest mountain in the world.

Why does no plant life grow near Mount Everest? Choose all the correct answers.

The Ganges and the Yamuna are the two most important __________ in India.​

Religious Hindus believe that if you bathe in either the Ganges or Yamuna rivers your ________ will be forgiven.

The climate in India is marked by extremes. Extreme hot and extreme ____.​

The summer in India is incredibly wet with temperatures going over 120 degrees.​

The wet season is called ___________, and it is incredibly wet, with up to 90 inches of rain per season.

In ancient India, the social classes were very strictly held.​ This was called the __________ system.​

In ancient India, you were born into a caste and had no way of moving out of it.​

In ancient India, with hard work, a person could join another caste.

The most practiced religion in India is ​

Hindus believe that Brahman (God) is the principle source of the universe. This divine intelligence exists

Hindus believe that all living things have souls, so almost all Hindus are ___________.

Hinduism is based on the concept of ________________, in which all living beings, from plants to gods, live in a cycle of birth and death.

According to the law of ___________, the quality of rebirth is determined by how you lived your previous life.

In the _______________, Krishna describes the soul's presence in every living thing, how all living things are part of the Creator, and introduces reincarnation.