Setting and Historical Perspective South and SE Asia

The largest Peninsula in South Asia is

• Indian Peninsula

• Arabian peninsula

• Sinai Peninsula

• Shandong Peninsula

The Most Important Mountain system in the region of South Asia is ?

• Hemaylan

  Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

• Himalayan Mountains

• Honduran Mountains

Himalayan Mountians helped create this two rivers .

• Ganges

• Indes

• Indus

• Gages

Match the following

• Indus and Ganges Rivers

• Largest of its kind in South Asia

• Indian Peninsula

• Large rocky landforms that seperate South Asia from the rest of Asia.

• Monsoon

• Water from rain and snow from mountains created this

• Himalayas

• winds that blow from land to sea in the winter and sea to land during the summer.

Monsoons can be both wet or dry depending on the season

• True

• False

These two countries are located in the Ring of Fire (an active volcanic zone)

• Philippines

• Indonesia

• Taiwan

• Hawaii

Under sea earthquakes create these

• Volcanoes

• Tsunamis

• Typhoons

• Massive floods

What is a Typhoon ?

• tropical storms with heavy rains with high winds

• violent shift in tectonic plates

• undersea earth quake

This Empire rose along the Ganges River

• Mali Empire

• Gupta

• Mauryan

• Kalinga

The leader of the Mauryan Empire he ruled for almost 40 years ?

• Chendregupta

• Usoka

• Asoka

• Chandragupta