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Section 2-4 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Highland Climate

Section 2-7 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Monsoons

Section 2-9 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Monsoons (cont.)

Section 2-11 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Yet, without the monsoons, farming in South Asia would suffer greatly. In low-lying Bangladesh, the monsoon rains frequently cause disastrous floods that ruin crops and kill livestock and people.  Monsoons (cont.) ec/sasia/ssd/ssmon/ssmonfr.htm opOfPage

Section 2-12 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Cyclones

CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION & CYCLONES

CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION & ANTICYCLONES

N.H. & S.H. WIND FLOW COUNTERCLOCKWISE AROUND LOWS IN N.H. CLOCKWISE AROUND LOWS IN S.H.

N.H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

S.H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

Map Supplement 2.1

Chart Supplement 2.1a

When the southwestern monsoons sweep along India’s west coast, they encounter the Western Ghats and drop plentiful rain that produces a band of rain forest, dense with coconut palms and teak.  Section 2-14 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Rain forests full of towering ebony trees and magnificent orchids cover much of Sri Lanka, and similar forests grow on a small section of India’s southeastern coast and along the Bay of Bengal. Forests

Section 2-14 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Forests

Section 2-16 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Mangrove trees and other tropical plants thrive in the Sundarbans, a swampy region in the southwest.  Valuable teak forests are located in the Chittagong Hills in the southeast.  Forests (cont.)

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