South Asia

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South Asia

• Physical Geography

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South Asia
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Satellite View of South Asia
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Mountains Plateaus

• Himalaya Mountains
• -Natural barrier to rest of Asia
• -Still growing-colliding w/ Asia
• -Nepal Bhutan

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The Himalayas

• him snow
• aalaya home
• Mt. Everest is 29,035 feet. It is the
  highest mt. peak in the world.

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Mountains Plateaus cont.

• Hindu Kush Mountains
• -Barrier b/w Pakistan
• Afghanistan
• -Fight over passes

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Hindu Kush
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The Khyber Pass
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Mountains Plateaus cont.

• Deccan Plateau
• -Most of southern India
• -Surrounded by Western
• Eastern Ghats
• -Arid Mts. Block moisture

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The Deccan Plateau

• 31,800 square miles in size.
• Elevation range 2,000 8,000 feet high.
• From the Sanskrit word, dakshina the south.

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Rivers Plains

• Three Great Rivers
• -Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra
• -Begin in Himalayas

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The Ganges River System
1,560 miles long
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The Brahmaputra River System
1,800 miles long
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Flooding on the Brahmaputra
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The Indus River System
1,975 miles long
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Rivers Plains cont.

• Indo-Gangetic Plain
• -North India
• -Formed by Indus,
• Ganges
• Brahmaputra
• (3 Great Rivers)
• -Most heavily
• populated area
• (3/5 of population)

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The Thar Desert

• The Great Indian Desert
• 200 - 1500 feet in elevation.
• up to 113ºF in July.

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Resources

• Water Soil
• -Provides food (Farming/fishing)
• -Alluvial soil fertile, river soil
• -Water CROPS transportation

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Resources

• Forests
• -Rain forests
• -Highland forests
• -Deforestation PROBLEM
• Leads to soil erosion
• flooding/landslides
• habitat loss

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Resources

• Minerals
• -Coal, petroleum, natural gas
• -Iron ore

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Climate

• 1. Highland
• coldest
• 2. Humid subtropical
• lush land
• 3. Semiarid
• 4. Desert
• 5. Tropical wet
• 6. Tropical wet
• dry

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Climate

• Monsoons
• -Seasonal winds
• -Good Rain
• -Bad Unpredictable, flooding

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Winter Monsoons Nov.-April
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Summer Monsoons May-Oct.
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Climate

• Cyclones
• -Violent storms
• -Dangerous

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Major Farming Systemsof South Asia
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Economic Activities Resources
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Silk Cultivation
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HEI Ganges River

• Most well known in region
• Important
• -Drinking, farming, transportation
• Hinduism
• -Most popular religion in India
• -Sacred River
• -Healing power

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HEI Ganges River

• Pollution
• -Most polluted in world
• -sewage, industrial waste, corpses
• -Diseases cholera, hepatitis, typhoid
• -Enormous problem!!!!

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Overview