Chapter 25 India

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Across
  1. 5. occurring once a year
  2. 8. a storm with heavy rains and high winds that blow in a circular patter around an area of low atmospheric pressure
  3. 10. a large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it
  4. 12. a program begun in the 1960s to produce higher-yielding, more productive strains of wheat, rice, and other food crops
  5. 13. a chemical used to kill insects, rodents, and other pests
  6. 15. in India, a group that defines one’s occupation and social position
  7. 16. the action by which one country is able to extend power to control another country
  8. 17. the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its survival
  9. 19. not favoring either side in a quarrel, contest, or war
  10. 20. to prevent from doing something
Down
  1. 1. in Hindu belief, the sum of good and bad actions in one’s present and past lives
  2. 2. in Asia, a seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in summer and reverses direction in the winter, bringing cold, dry air from Asia’s interior
  3. 3. originally a Japanese term, is a huge wage causes by an undersea earthquake
  4. 4. village council
  5. 6. rebirth in new bodies of forms of life
  6. 7. to ebb and flow in waves
  7. 8. a business that employs workers in their homes
  8. 9. a floodplain on which flooding rivers have deposited silt
  9. 11. the theory or practice of merchant or trading pursuits
  10. 14. to have a commanding position
  11. 18. the practice and business of recreational travel based on concern for the environment