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Agenda. Warm up: 2 nd 6 wks : Week 2: Day 1 Turn in homework: Asia physical map worksheet Things that should have been turned in: Europe maps, Russian physical feature sheet, Middle East packet Notes on South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, & Antarctica.

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Agenda

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  1. Agenda • Warm up: 2nd 6 wks: Week 2: Day 1 • Turn in homework: Asia physical map worksheet • Things that should have been turned in: Europe maps, Russian physical feature sheet, Middle East packet • Notes on South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, & Antarctica

  2. South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, & Antarctica

  3. Where is SOUTH ASIA?? http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/asias1.htm

  4. South Asia

  5. Physical Geography • Plate Tectonics • Clashing or colliding plates of Eurasian and Indian plates • This collision created the Himalayan Mts.

  6. Continental Collision: Convergent Continental Collision: Subduction

  7. The Himalayas

  8. Mountains of South Asia • The Himalayas • Northern Barrier of South Asia • World’s Tallest Peaks • Mt. Everest (29, 035 feet) http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/peaks/everest.htm

  9. The Himalayas • “him” [snow] • “aalaya” [home] • Mt. Everest is 29,035 feet. It is the highest mt. peak in the world.

  10. Hindu Kush: Mts. range in Afghanistans

  11. The Khyber Pass: only route through the Hindu Kush Mts.

  12. The Hindu Kush Khyber Pass The Himalayas

  13. Physical Geography of South Asia • Rivers • Indus River • Ganges River • Brahmaputra River • Gulfs - • Arabian Gulf • Bay of Bengal

  14. Rivers of South Asia: • Ganges River • -large delta, pollution, trade, irrigation, transportation, religion http://www.asd.k12.ak.us/schools/romig/asia/Geo/ganges/geography.html

  15. The Ganges River System 1,560 miles long

  16. “Mata Ganga” (Mother Ganges)

  17. The Indus River System 1,975 miles long Surrounded by deserts on both sides

  18. Pakistan Lower Indus Valley

  19. Bodies of Water Indus R. Brahmaputra R. Ganges R. Bay ofBengal Arabian Sea Indian Ocean

  20. Monsoons • Both South and Southeast Asia have warm winters and hot summers. • Monsoons are violent winds blow over the region and bring heavy rains in the summer. • Monsoon rains provide water for crops and support life, but also cause flooding, landslides, property damage, and even death.

  21. South East Asia • Also divided by mountains creating distinctive cultures and languages in Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia. • Mekong, Salween, & Irrawady Rivers in Southeast Asia. • Monsoons

  22. Landforms: • Volcanic Archipelagos - Volcanic Islands • Himalayan foothills extend into Myanmar & Thailand

  23. Australia • Only nation to occupy an entire continent • Flattest and (after Antarctica) driest of continents • North: rainforests and vast plains • South East: snowfields • Centre: desert • East, South, and South West: fertile croplands

  24. Great Barrier Reef • The Great Barrier Reef is located on the North-East Coast. • It is approx. 25 million years old! • It is the world’s largest coral reef, stretching 2000 km. • There are over 1800 species of life on these coral reefs including fish, plant life, turtles and many other marine life-forms.

  25. Uluru

  26. Uluru • Uluru or Ayer’s Rock as it is also known, is the largest monolith in the world. • It is located in the Northern Territory. • Lots of people climb it but the native Australians; the Aborigine people prefer that it is not climbed as it is sacred to them. It is also dangerous and some people have fallen off.

  27. Typical animals

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