Chapter 9 Key Term Quiz

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

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

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).

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

A method for mapping which references the relevant complex social geographies.

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

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

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

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.

A system of government that is ruled by the leaders of a religion, or based on the beliefs of a single religion.

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.

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

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