Transcript Yellow River/ Huang He

EAST ASIA
Ch 26.1
LAND & SEA
China= 80% of E. Asia (4th largest in
world), 1.3 bil ppl
Mongolia= most sparse, <1% of
China’s pop.
Yurt
Korean Peninsula
• S of Manchurian
Plain &
Changbai Mtns.
• b/w Sea of
Japan & Yellow
Sea
Archipelago= chain of islands (Japan, Phil.)
Plate Tectonics: part of Ring of Fire
2008 EQ in China
2009 VE in Philippines
Tsunamis
Indonesia, 2004
A wave caused by
underwater
earthquake, or any
large displacement of
water. Gets higher as
approaches land
Mount Fuji
Tallest volc. in Japan, on Honshu (now dormant)
Important spiritual symbol good luck if see in dream
Plateau of Tibet: highest plateau region,
15,000 ft (SW China)
Tarim Basin: vast wasteland, mostly
desert & salt marshes
Gobi Desert: S. Mong/N China; lots of
dust storms, COLD
Huang He: aka Yellow River b/c of loess,
“China’s Sorrow” catastrophic floods
Yangtze River: longest in Asia (3rd in world)
Only habitat
for Yangtze
River Dolphin
½ of China’s crops
grown in YR basin
Pink River Dolphin
Major transportation route: mouth @ Shanghai
Three Gorges Dam
Xi River delta: fastest growing in China
Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Grand Canal: longest artificial waterway
in world, began in 400 BCE!
Feng Shui: harmonizing bldgs/structures w/
environment (real estate, grave sties, interior
design
Natural Resources
• China: widest
variety, most oil
• Mongolia/Koreas:
most coal
• Taiwan: minimal,
used up
• China: 10% arable (but still most in size)
• Taiwan/SK: 25%
• Mongolia: 1%
• China: “rice
bowl” in south,
wheat in north
SK has to alter crops to match climate
and preserve land: rice & barley
Japan & Mongolia are limited by mountains
and deserts
Fishing: almost all are coastal
seafood exports; SK, China, Taiwan
lead world
Taiwan
China
Southeast Asia
Ch 29.1
Plates uplift crust, create volcanic islands,
cordilleras, etc.
Indochina
Pen.
Malay
Pen.
Borneo
Indonesia: 13,500 islands (6,000 names,
1,000 inhabited)
East Timor: UN voted independence in
1999 finalized in 2002
ET & Philippines are
only Catholic nations in
SE Asia
10 year anniv. celebration
Java: most pop. island in world, 17/100
Indonesia’s active volcanoes
- center of Indo. social, political, eco. Life
- Jakarta (capital) here
Krakatau
Anak Krakatau- 2007
Mt. Pinatubo
Earthquakes began 7/90
Small eruptions 4/91
Magma eruptions 6/91
Climax 6/15/91
Mt. Pinatubo
Pinatubo aerosol clouds
Regular clouds
August, 1991…over SOUTH AMERICA
Most powerful eruption of 20th century
Mekong River: starts in China, borders/flows
thru 6 countries resource conflicts
• Lots of fossil
fuels (coal, oil,
nat. gas)
• Vietnam, Brunei,
& Indonesia
have oil
– Indo. in OPEC
until 2008
Myanmar/Burma: military junta has
not utilized resources
Thein Sein,
elected
March 2011,
first civilian
president
1988 protests in Rangoon
Flora brings in big bucks
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Thailand: orchids
Malaysia: rubber
Philippines: hardwoods
Indonesia: plywood
All nations, but Laos, are coastal/islands
FISHING IS HUGE!!
Myanmar
Cambodia