Vocab Quiz Friday

Question 1

Subcontinent

Answer 1

Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it

Question 2

Alluvial plain

Answer 2

Floodplain such as the gangetic plain in India on which flooding rivers have deposited silt

Question 3

Monsoon

Answer 3

Seasonal wind that brings warm moist air in the summer and cool and dry ones in the winter

Question 4

Cyclone

Answer 4

Spiral shaped tropical storm

Question 5

Tsunami

Answer 5

Huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake

Question 6

Mercantilism

Answer 6

Theory or practice of merchant or trading pursuits

Question 7

Imperialism

Answer 7

The actions by which one country is able to extend power to another country

Question 8

Green revolution

Answer 8

Program begun in the 1960s to produce more productive strains of food crops (rice)

Question 9

Cottage industry

Answer 9

A business that employs workers in their homes

Question 10

Delta

Answer 10

Triangular shaped thing of silt at the end of a river

Question 11

Floodplain

Answer 11

The low lying land along a river

Question 12

Jute

Answer 12

A fiber used to make string rope or cloth

Question 13

Lama

Answer 13

Buddhist monk

Question 14

Mantra

Answer 14

Sacred words or phrases that are repeated in prayers or chants

Question 15

Sustainable development

Answer 15

Economic growth that doesn’t deplete human and natural resources of the given area

Question 16

Stupas

Answer 16

A dome shaped structure that serves as a Buddhist shrine

Question 17

Karma

Answer 17

Hindu belief that the sum of good and bad actions in ones present and past lives

Question 18

Reincarnation

Answer 18

BBB

Question 19

Caste

Answer 19

Haben

Question 20

Total fertility rate

Answer 20

The total rate of babies being born