What are the major landforms south of China? Peninsulas Archipelagos Cordilleras – mountain ranges that run side by side…fertile river plains and deltas separate the ranges and are densely populated.

2. Write a sentence describing how the subcontinent of Southern Asia was formed. India [the subcontinent] was formed when the Indian tectonic plate crashed into the Eurasian tectonic plate causing the rise of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

3. Identify 4 rivers in Eastern Asia and 3 in Southern Asia. Huang He [Yellow] Ganges Chiang Jiang [Yangtze] Indus Mekong Brahmaputra Irrawaddy or Chao Phraya or Salween

Energy = oil / petroleum; hydroelectric 4. List energy, mineral, and forest resources of Eastern and Southern Asia. Energy = oil / petroleum; hydroelectric Mineral = tin, iron ore, chromium, manganese, nickel, tungsten. Gems = sapphires, rubies, and pearls. Forest = teak wood and mahogany.

Ganges dirtied by sewage, runoff from factories, and waste products. 5. What are the causes of water pollution in Eastern and Southern Asia? Ganges dirtied by sewage, runoff from factories, and waste products. You will get more on this later.

6. What are the causes of air pollution in Eastern and Southern Asia? Cars release exhaust fumes; burning coal …villagers cook with burning wood, kerosene, charcoal, and animal dung

The Chiang Jiang is important for transportation, trade, and farming. 7. Why is the Chiang Jiang important to China? What problems has it brought? The Chiang Jiang is important for transportation, trade, and farming. But the 3 Gorges Dam opened in 2006 to produce hydroelectric energy and prevent floods forced more than a million people from their homes and destroyed 1200 towns and villages. Today pollution collects in the reservoir.

8. How have the economies of Eastern and Southern Asia been affected by waterways? Chiang Jiang provides water for large farms and more than half of China’s rice and other grains grow in North China Plain. It is also an important trade route connected by the Grand Canal from the East China Sea to the Huang He and Beijing. The Mekong region is a fertile rice growing area and provides hydro electric energy. The Ganges is surrounded by plains and provides trade, transportation and farming.

9. What is loess and how does it effect the people of northern China? Loess is a fine yellow-brown soil that provides rich soil to make the North China Plain a major wheat growing area. Huang He also floods enriching flood plain with fertile soil but destroys homes and results in death. The Huang He is known as “China’s Sorrow”.

10. How does landscape differ… affects population distribution. Western China is plateaus, mountains, and deserts. The east has fertile river plains. The majority of the people live in the east.

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1. a group of islands making a country. 2. a body of land surrounded on three sides by water. 3. a flat topped mountain range with steep sides. 4.  level land at low elevation usually covered by grass. 5. Asian name for hurricanes or typhoons. 6. area where a river fans out at its mouth and deposits soil, silt, or loess. 7. large body of water surrounded on three sides by land. 8. narrow  body (or passage) of water between two pieces of land. 9. fine yellow or brown sandy soil blown off deserts. 10. seasonal winds that bring the rainy or dry season in Asia.

The more northern one is the Huang He, formerly known as the Yellow River which flows into the Yellow Sea. The southern one is the Chiang Jiang formerly know as Yangtze.

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