WG SE ASIA
VOCAB (UNIT 10)
SE ASIA GEOGRAPHY
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Group of islands:
archipelago
System of parallel mountain ranges:
cordillera
Island:
insular
The insular region of SE Asia includes the countries of Malaysia, Singapore,
Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines has been formed along the
boundaries of the three crustal segments of the Earth that meet there.
THE NATURAL WORLD OF SE ASIA
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Native to a particular area:
endemic
Trees that lose leaves in autumn:
deciduous
Plants and animals:
flora and fauna
The tarsier is a small primate that can fit in your palm
and has big round eyes. They are nocturnal and can
be found on the islands of Southeast Asia
LOCATION OF SE ASIA NATIONS
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• The Southeast Asian countries that lie partly
or entirely on the Indochina Peninsula are:
_____, _____, _____, _____,and _____.
• Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and
Laos
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• The five insular countries are: _____, _____,
_____, _____, and _____.
• Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, and
the Philippines
EARTH FORCES OF SE ASIA
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• The geological activities
that created Southeast
Asia were _____ and
_____.
• volcanoes and
earthquakes
ECONOMICS OF SE ASIA
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• Waterways are important to Southeast Asia's people because it
provides _____, _____, and _____.
• transportation, communication, and food
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• A Southeast Asian resource found underground - _____ and _____.
• minerals and gems
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• A Southeast Asian resource found underwater - _____.
• fish
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• A Southeast Asian resource found in a tropical rain forest - _____
and _____.
• wood and spices
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• Southeast Asian _____, or seafaring, empires controlled shipping
and trade.
• maritime
CLIMATE REGIONS OF SE ASIA
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• The four main climate regions of Southeast Asia
are: _____, _____, _____, and _____.
• tropical rain forest, tropical savanna, humid
subtropical, and highlands
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• Highlands climates can be found in _____, _____,
and _____.
• Myanmar, New Guinea, and Borneo
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• Weather north of the Equator is different from
weather south of the Equator because the wet
and dry cycles are _____. reversed
VEGETATION REGIONS OF SE ASIA
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• The region's oldest forests are
found in _____.
• Malaysia
• Most of _____ vegetation is
unusual because it had to be
brought in from other countries.
• Singapore's
SOCIAL MAKEUP OF SE ASIA
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• A _____ often houses a large, extended
family.
• longhouse
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• The quality of life in Southeast Asia has
improved by _____ and _____, _____, and
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• health and education, living longer, and
higher literacy rates
Tatted-up Cambodians living in this
longhouse--subsistence farmers for sure
POLITICAL FACTORS OF SE ASIA
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• Kuala Lumpur is Malaysia's _____.
• primate city
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• Western countries set up _____ in Southeast
Asia.
• spheres of influence
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• A neutral territory called a _____ can prevent
conflict between rival powers.
• buffer state
RELIGION OF SE ASIA
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•Southeast Asian
architecture includes
_____, or temples
inspired by India.
•wats
SOME POPULATION FACTORS OF SE ASIA
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• The geographic factors that influence where
Southeast Asian's live are: _____, _____,
_____, and _____.
• water supply, fertile land, transportation, and
jobs
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• The characteristics of the region's urban and
rural populations are: _____.
• people moved to the cities instead of rural
areas
SOME HISTORY OF SE ASIA
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• The early Southeast Asian kingdoms prospered because
maritime empires gained power by controlling _____ and
_____. Land-based empires gained wealth from crops
grown in _____.
• shipping and trade; fertile soil
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• Colonization by Western countries affected the region by
_____, _____, _____, _____ and _____, _____, and _____.
• building railroads, paving roads, improving harbors, tin
mining and oil drilling, large plantations, and cultural
diversity
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• The foreign influences that can be seen in Southeast Asia's
are: _____, _____, and _____.
• Chinese, Indian, and European