1. Map Supplement 1.1

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

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

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

5. 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.) http://www.harpercollege.edu/~mhealy/g101il ec/sasia/ssd/ssmon/ssmonfr.htm http://www.fao.org/docrep/S2022E/s2022e02.htm#T opOfPage

6. Section 2-12 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Cyclones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone

7. CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION & CYCLONES

8. CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION & ANTICYCLONES

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

10. N.H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

11. S.H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

12. Map Supplement 2.1

13. Chart Supplement 2.1a

14. 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.  http://www.uafdc.org/types_forest.html 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

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

16. 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.)

17. Map Supplement 2.1