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Geography
 Consists of two
peninsulas and a
series of archipelagos
and islands
 Indochinese
Peninsula
 Malay Peninsula
 Philippine Islands
 Malay Archipelago
 Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos
 Rugged mountains
 Low plateaus
 Plains
 Rivers that flood often
 More than 20,000 islands in the region
 Island nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Brunei, East Timor
 Volcanic mountains
 Rainforests
 Fertile soil allows for growing and harvesting
 Commercial Fishing
 Fossil Fuels and Minerals
 Iron and Tin
 Gas and oil
 Harvesting of crops
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Tea
Rice
Rubber
Spices
Coffee
Sugarcane
 Tropical Savanna
 Mainland
 Warm to hot all year
 Monsoons bring rain in summer
 Areas full of tall grasses and trees
 Humid Tropical
 Islands and Malay Peninsula
 Hot, muggy, and rainy year round
 Typhoons bring heavy rain
 Rainforests
 Summer Monsoons
 Hot and rainy
 Brings lots of flooding to region
 May to October
 Winter Monsoons
 Dry and Hot
 November to April
 Climate and the fact that the Ring of Fire runs through
the region creates an environment perfect for natural
disasters
 Tsunamis
 Earthquakes
 Volcanoes
 Typhoons
 Allows for many different types of adaptations and
modifications