Southeast Asia - Physical Overview Flashcards
What is the Geography of Southeast Asia?
Southeast Asia is very mountainous (no snow) and has lots of tropical forest.
What is the Climate of Southeast Asia?
Tropical Seasonal. There are occasional monsoons. Some parts get up to two-hundred inches of rain a year.
What is the main river of Southeast Asia?
The Mekong River which comes out of the Himalayas.
What countries are in Southeast Asia?
Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
What is the Maylay Peninsula?
The Malay Peninsula is a small, narrow peninsula coming out of Thailand. Malaysia is at the end of the Malay Peninsula.
What issues are there for Southeast Asia?
China wants to dam the Mekong for themselves, and the forests are being cut down very quickly.
The ____ plantations of the Malay Peninsula are characterized by very tall trees, uniformly spaced, that
block the sun.
Rubber.
The long, narrow Malay Peninsula reaching away from Southeast Asia is very suitable for ________.
Tropical plantation crops.
The people in the highland region of Southeast Asia use the _______ for terraced farming.
River valleys.
There is a highland region in the northern part of Southeast Asia with mountains that act as a _______ human travel.
Barrier to.
There is environmental damage in Southeast Asia from _____.
Deforestation.
In the central area of Southeast Asia wild ______ are rounded up and trained for the lumber industry.
Elephants.
Through the use of terraced farming the people in the highland region of Southeast Asia grow great amounts of food ____.
And control erosion.
