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Physical Geography of South Asia
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Pattern of landforms
Yellow: high Mts
Purple: alluvial
Plains (fertile land
Formed by flooding
rivers
Red: plateaus
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Tectonic action
• Which two plates collide?
• What type of plate boundary?
• What landform results?
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subcontinent
If Asia is a continent,
why is South Asia
a “subcontinent”?
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Name the Mountain Ranges
Blue:
Yellow:
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Name the Major Rivers
Blue:
Yellow:
Purple:
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Major Rivers
In what country would you find the deltas
for the Ganges and Brahmaputra river?
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Indo-Gangetic
Plain
Looking at the two
images, what is
important about the
Indo-Gangetic Plain?
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Alluvial Plains
How are alluvial
plains formed?
Why would alluvial
plains be able to
support large
populations?
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The Punjab
What religion/ethnic group claims Punjab as
it’s historical homeland? (use Google)
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Deccan Plateau
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Eastern/Western Ghats
What is a ghat? (not the Varanasi ghats but the landform)
Western Ghats Eastern Ghats
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archipelago
Maldives and the
Andaman Islands
are both archipelagos.
What is an archipelago?
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Pattern of
climate in
South Asia
Describe temperature and precipitation levels in
South Asia as you move from west to east?
What is the dominate climate in the west of South
Asia? The east?
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Monsoons
The monsoon is a seasonal shift in the prevailing
winds over South Asia. You will need to know
why the winds shift as well as which monsoon
is wet and which is dry.
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Monsoons
Why does a low pressure system form of South Asia in
the summer?
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Monsoons
In the summer, will the air over South Asia have high or
low levels of humidity? Why?
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Monsoons
What major barrier will the monsoon winds eventually
strike in northern India?
What is this type of precipitation called?
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Monsoons
Is the summer monsoon wet or dry?
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Monsoons
Why will a high pressure system form of eastern China
during the winter?
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Monsoons
Will the air of the winter monsoon have high or low
levels of humidity? Why?
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Monsoons
Is the winter monsoon wet or dry?
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Natural Hazards: Cyclone
This is a satellite image of a cyclone. What do we call
cyclones in the USA?
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Natural Hazards: storm surge
Re-write this definition so a 10 year old could understand it.
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Natural Hazards: tsunami
Circle the area on the above map that would most likely cause
a tsunami to strike South Asia.