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South Asia (India)
Predicting settlememt patterns monsoons and physical features of South Asia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is a plateau a good place to encourage people to live there | Yes because since its flat you can build city and grow crops (Farm) and I believe there is some water |
| Is a rain forest a good place to encourage people to live there | No because of the amount of rainfall it would cause floods and drown plants and animals there are zillions of bugs carrying diseases and it would be hard to build with all the plant and animal life |
| Is a delta a good place to encourage people to live there | Yes because there's water and civilization because you can build and crop |
| Is a tropical beach a good place to encourage people to live there | Yes because they have plants animals and food they will have land to build and crop the even have a way of trading and communicating |
| Is a mountain range a good place to encourage people to live there | No because you can't build or crop its extremely cold there's even glaciers. There's not much civilization |
| Don't forget you settlement predicting skills | |
| Is a river a good place to encourage people to live there | Yes because you have water so you can crop and build you can even trade... possibly communicate |
| Is a desert a good place to encourage people to live there | No because there's little fertile soil no water extremely high temperatures little food. There's no civilization you can't crop or build and in some cases the desert is deadly |
| Is a plain a good place to encourage people to live there | Yes because you can build and crop even better yet its not to hot and not to cold |
| Is a glacier a good place to encourage people to live there | No because its cold slippery and frozen. Its even slowly moving there are usually mountain ranges surrounding the glaciers so you can't build or crop |
| Is a mountain a good place to encourage people to live there | No because you can't build and crop its very very cold with little water and water they may have is probably frozen |
| What are Monsoons | A seasonal wind that can bring rain in the summer and sunny dry weather in the winter |
| When's a summer monsoon | From June to September (Summer) |
| Whats the influence of mountains against monsoons | The mountains act as a barrier. They block the wind making it rain on only one side of the moutain |
| Whats the impact on the climate from the summer monsoons | Its very wet humid cold rainy windy and there's many of floods |
| When's a winter monsoon | From December to early March (Winter) |
| Whats the cause of monsoons | Convection currents caused by change in temperature. In the summer its very hot and as the hot air rises over the land it pulls cool damp air from the ocean towards the lands. |
| What does subcontinent mean | A large landmass that is part of a continent but has its own geographic identity |
| What does sediment mean | Small fragment of rock or other materials that can be moved or removed by wind water and ice |
| What does Himalayas mean | A mountain range that stretched about 1,500 miles across south central Asia. |
| What does Deccan plateau mean | A plateau that makes up most of southern India |
| What does Northern Planes mean | Plains that lie in between the Himalayan Mountains and southern India |
| What does delta mean | A triangular deposit of soil at the mouth of a river |
| Whats the impact of monsoons in the winter | A cooler climate. Its also sunny and dry. |
| How do monsoons influence mountains | By keeping the mountains cool VERY cool. |
| How are monsoons helpful to people | Brings rain for the crops. If it wasn't for monsoons there would be a whole hell of a lot less hydroelectricity. So basically the economy would fall apart |
| What happens if the monsoons are late | The economy begins to fall apart. And people start to die because there are no crops because there is no water to create fertile soil |
| what happens if the monsoons are early | The farmers aren't ready because there sears aren't in the ground yet. Not enough time to grow the crops so there is still no food being grown |
| What happens if the monsoons bring to much rain | Then there sore floods mudslides the roads are damaged peoples houses flood and drift away. It even ends lives |
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