Highland Climate Click the mouse button or press

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Monsoons Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

Monsoons (cont. ) Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

Monsoons (cont. ) • In low-lying Bangladesh, the monsoon rains frequently cause disastrous floods that ruin crops and kill livestock and people. • Yet, without the monsoons, farming in South Asia would suffer greatly. http: //www. harpercollege. edu/~mhealy/g 101 il ec/sasia/ssd/ssmonfr. htm http: //www. fao. org/docrep/S 2022 E/s 2022 e 02. htm# Top. Of. Page Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

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

• COUNTERCLOCKWISE AROUND LOWS IN N. H. • CLOCKWISE AROUND LOWS IN S. H.

N. H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

S. H. WIND FLOW-CYCLONE

Forests • 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 • 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. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

Forests Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

Forests (cont. ) • Valuable teak forests are located in the Chittagong Hills in the southeast. • Mangrove trees and other tropical plants thrive in the Sundarbans, a swampy region in the southwest. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.