vocabulary Unit 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | A mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain peak
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| Subcontinent | show 🗑
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| show | Lands that are rich farmlands
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| show | Island group, of more than 1,200 small islands
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| show | Ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon
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| show | A seasonal wind, especially in South Asia
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| Cyclone | show 🗑
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| show | The dominant religion of India
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| show | River in South Asia; an important water resource flowing more than 1,500 miles from its source in a himalayan glacier to the Bay of Bengal
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| show | High water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas
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| Estuary | show 🗑
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| show | A state founded in the 15th century by a man named mutota and that extended throught all of present-day Zimbabwe except the eastern part
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| show | The period of British rule in India, which lasted for nearly 200 years, from 1857 to 1947
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| Nonviolent resistance | show 🗑
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| show | The process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land distrution among farmers
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| show | An agricultural program launched by scientists in the 1960s to devlop a higher-yielding grain varieties and improve food production by incorporating new farming techniques
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| show | The Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation
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| show | The largest of the world'sn first civilizations in what is now Pakistan; this was a highly developed urban civilization, lasting from 2500 b.c. to about 1500 b.c.
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| show | Separation; division into two or more territorial units having separate political status
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| show | A region of nothern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought
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| show | A small loan available to poor entrepreneurs to help small businesses grow and raise living standards
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| show | A person who starts and builds business
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| Ramadan | show 🗑
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| show | A goverment in which the ruler's powers are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation
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| show | A person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guideof the Mount Everest region
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| show | The founder of buddism and known as the buddha, born in southern Nepal in the sixth century b.c.
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| Mandala | show 🗑
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| show | An Indo-Aryan people who crossed the strait separating India and Sri Lanka in the sixth century b.c. and who created an advanced civilization there, adopting uddhism
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| Tamils | show 🗑
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| Sultan | show 🗑
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| show | Food, clothing, and shelter
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| show | The inability to read and write
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| Summer monsoon | show 🗑
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| show | The season when dry winds blow from northeast across the Himalaya Mountains toward the sea from October throught February, sometimes causing droughts
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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