Flashcards: Asia Vocabulary
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mrdgeography on April 13, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Himalaya Mountains | mountain range that separates India from China that includes the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest |
| Ganges River | river that flows through northern India into the Bay of Bengal and is considered sacred by Hindus |
| Gobi Desert | desert in Western China that is in the rain shadow of the Himalaya Mountains |
| orographic precipitation | rain that is caused by mountain ranges |
| monsoon | wind pattern that brings rain to parts of Asia |
| ring of fire | area around the Pacific Ocean where many tectonic plates meet causing more earthquakes and active volcanoes |
| cyclone | a tropical storm in Asia similar to a Hurricane and also called a typhoon |
| rainforest | forest that grows in a tropical wet climate zone and has broadleaf trees |
| steppe | dry grassland near deserts |
| archipelago | chain of islands such as the Japanese Islands and the Philippines |
| Hinduism | major religion in India that is polytheistic, believes in reincarnation and karma, and the idea that everyone as a soul called atman |
| Buddhism | major religion in Southeast Asia that believes in reincarnation, karma, and nirvana, founded by Siddhartha |
| Shintoism | ethnic religion in Japan that believes in nature spirits called kami |
| Confucianism | philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics |
| Taoism | religion that developed in China that believes in balance and action through inaction |
| reincarnation | the idea that when a person dies their spirit will be reborn |
| karma | the idea that when someone does something good or bad it will come back to them |
| nirvana | the Buddhist concept of heaven but it is more closely associated with release from suffering or the attainment of enlightenment |
| atman | soul in Hinduism |
| caste system | system of social organization in India |
| brahman | people at the top of the caste system in India, also known as priests or teachers |
| ancestor worship | the idea that when a family member dies their spirit can help bring you good fortune in this life |
| command economy | an economy in which the government owns the means of production |
| free market economy | an economy in which the means of production are owned by the people and it operates on supply and demand |
| mixed economy | an economy where the government owns some major industries |
| megalopolis | highly urbanized areas where major cities are connected by urban sprawl |
| deforestation | when trees are cut down faster than they can grow back |
| agricultural terracing | the practice of creating flat areas in the mountains in order to farm |
| yurt | a tent used by nomads in Mongolia |
| pagoda | a building with a distinctive curved roof that is common in Asia and can be used for a shrine or religious temple |
| ASEAN | economic organization of countries in Southeast Asia |
| OPEC | economic organization that controls the price and production of oil in the world |
| Kashmir | region located between India and Pakistan that both countries claim |
| mosque | place where Muslims worship |
| green revolution | period in the 1950s when better types of rice were introduced into Asia |
| batik | a type of cloth in Indonesia |
| ideogram | type of writing in China |
| loess | wind blown dirt that is common in China |