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World Geography South Asia Review Sheet

South Asia Map

1.  Label the following features on the South Asia map below:

a.  Indian Ocean

b.  Ganges River

c.  Himalaya Mountains

2.  Using the diagram on page 598, draw the summer monsoon season. The summer monsoons cause ______in South Asia.

3.  The ______Mountains act a barrier for diffusion in South Asia.

Monsoons, Tsunamis, & Earthquakes

4.  The Himalaya Mountains and tsunamis are both created by ______forces.

5.  What are the effects of the Monsoon winds? (p. 557)

6.  When the summer monsoon arrives late and produces too little rain, what is the effect on agriculture?

Hinduism, the Caste System, & the Ganges River

7.  Hinduism is known as a ______religion because they believe in many gods.

8.  Define reincarnation.

9.  The Aryan System of social classes is known as the ______.

10. Fill in the diagram of the Caste System.

11. Which social class in India is so low that they aren’t even part of the Caste System? Explain what their lives are like.

12. ______

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Overpopulation in South Asia

13. Define carrying capacity.

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19.  How did the Green Revolution positively affect India?

British Colonization of India – The Raj

20.  Describe an economic benefit of being a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

21.  List the most important effect of British Colonization in India.

POLITICAL / ECONOMIC / SOCIAL

22.  Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of opposition that he used to end British colonization is called?

Conflict in South Asia

23. What is the Partition of India.

24. List the 4 major effects of the Partition of India

25. After the Partition Muslims migrate to ______, while Hindus migrate to ______.

26. Why has the conflict in Kashmir become increasingly dangerous and a global problem?

27. Country #2 on the map to the right is now called ______.

28. List the two groups fighting for control of Sri Lanka?

Migration in India

29. Define Outsourcing.

30. Poor farming techniques, bad schools, poor water supplies, and a low standard of living are all characteristics of life in ______(rural India or urban India)

31. List push and pull factors for migration in India

PUSH:

PULL: