1. Regional Development
SOL # 4

2. Decreased Soil Fertility
Human interaction with the environment affects the development of a region.
Deforestation
Amazon Basin, Nepal, Malaysia
Acid Rain
Black Forest
Decreased Soil Fertility
Aswan High Dam

3. DEFORESTATION Amazon Basin

4. DEFORESTATION Nepal China http://www.pramodrimal.com.np/Nepal_Map.jpg

5. DEFORESTATION Malaysia Asia

6. ACID RAIN
Black Forest

7. DECREASED SOIL FERTILITY
Aswan High Dam

8. Contributions to the determination of a country’s relative importance

9. CONTRIBUTIONS
GDP
Gross Domestic Product

10. CONTRIBUTIONS
Land Size

11. CONTRIBUTIONS Population Size

12. CONTRIBUTIONS
Resources

13. Elements of the physical environment, such as major bodies of water and mountains, influence the economic and cultural characteristics of regions.
WATER
MOUNTAINS

14. WATER
Rio Grande
Ob River
Zambezi River
Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers

15. WATER Rio Grande Boundary

16. WATER Ob River Flows northward into Artic Ocean

17. WATER
Zambezi River
Water Power
Africa
Hydroelectric power

18. WATER Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers Flood hazard Asia India

19. MOUNTAINS Rocky Mountains Create rain shadows on leeward slopes dry

20. MOUNTAINS
Himalayas
Block moisture to create steppes and deserts in Central Asia

21. Regional Development
SOL # 4
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