Chapter 9 Key Term Quiz

South Asia
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A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

The highly disputed, militarized region that separates Southeast Pakistan and Northern India.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

A seasonal wind in South East Asia that blows from land to sea in October to May (dry monsoon ) and from sea to land on May to September bringing rain (wet monsoon).

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

The division of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947.

A boundary implemented after the second Afghan War redefining the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

Involves utilizing fields and gardens over a wide area through rotation in time, as opposed to the fixed cultivation that is necessarily dominant in the densely populated South Asian region, for example.

An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

An area created by sediments carried by a river.

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