South, Southeast, and East Asia

Today:  Warmup  BrainPOP: Natural Resources  Notes  T Chart Activity  DIY

Warm UP:  What continent and mountain range Mt. Everest in?  ( You can use your electronic devices to find the answer)

Renewable Resource  A part of the earths natural enviornment  Can be RENEWED  Look up the word RENEWED  Examples:  Water  Plants  Timber  Air  Solar Power

Non Renewable Resource  A resource that cannot be replaced  YOU USE IT AND LOSE IT!  Examples:  Fossil Fuels  Minerals  Salt  Coal  Natural Gas

T Chart  In your Journals create a T Chart  On one side, write RENEWABLE RESOURCES  On the other side write NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES  Give examples of each based on your knowledge of these terms

Physical Characteristics   There are many Mountains that influence the region  population settlement patterns  ability of people to move  climate

 Mountains  Himalayas  Western and Eastern Ghats  Mount Fuji-Japan

Himalayas

Mt. Fuji

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji—outside of Tokyo

Himalayas—Mt. Everest

 Varied climate regions--ranging from tropical wet to humid continental  Many natural hazards-- monsoons, typhoons, volcanoes, and earthquakes

 Monsoon--a seasonal shift in the prevailing winds that influences large climate regions  Typhoon--a destructive tropical storm occurring in the western Pacific Ocean or the China Sea, similar to a hurricane

 Influence of water--(rivers, seas, and ocean currents) on agriculture, trade, and transportation

 Area have abundant arable land  areas of loess  Plateau of Tibet hard to live on  Gobi Desert--second largest in the world

 Many newly industrialized countries  South Korea  Taiwan  Singapore  Japan = economic leader  China is in a transition period--from a centrally planned economy to more of a tradition free market economy

 Agricultural advancements and technology are enabling greater food production-- “Green Revolution”  Environmental degradation  deforestation  fishing is important

 Main Crops:  rice  Bananas  serious religious  conflictsprimarily between Hindus and Muslims

Cultural Characteristics  Areas of extremely dense and sparse population  severe contrast between rural and urban areas

 deep respect for ancestors  Religious diversity-- Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, Shinto, Confucianism are the major religions

 India has a strict caste system--(similar to a class structure) once born into a caste it is next to impossible to move out of that caste

 Cultural heritage  Silks  Batik  wood and ivory carving  ideograms--unique alphabets  jewels

 Important cities--Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China; New Delhi,India

 Cultural landscape--Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Great Wall of China, floating markets, mosques,minarets, pagodas, temples and shrines, terraced rice fields

Angkor Wat

Great Wall of China

Taj Mahal

Batik

Gobi Desert

Buddha

Buddha in New Delhi

Shinto Shrine

Temple

Pagoda

Pagoda

Temple