Chapter 9 Key Term Quiz

South Asia
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An inventory strategy used by companies to meet immediate demand.

Used to describe a state in which there is not enough reliable, affordable and nutritious food available.

Name given to the globally influential movie industry that dominates Indian culture, as well as the movie making complex in Mumbai where many productions originate.

A member of the lowest caste in the traditional Indian caste system.

Refers to the movement from a more centralized form of economy to a freer, market-based economy.

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.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

Currency from another country.

The conflict between the British and Russian Empires in the nineteenth century for dominance in Afghanistan and South Central Asia.

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.

An area created by sediments carried by a river.

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