Physical Geography Vocabulary
This is the name for a closely related group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
These are sculptures or carvings that project from a flat background.
What are bas-relief?
These are blasts from volcanoes, such as the those found in the Ring of Fire.
What are eruptions?
Laos is the only one of these in Southeast Asia.
What is a landlocked country?
This is pottery with a green glaze.
What is Celedon?
This is the process by which fertile lands change to desert.
What is desertification?
These are men in Thailand who devote themselves to religious work.
Who are monks?
These are the two countries on the mainland of East Asia.
What are China and Mongolia?
Catching only enough fish to eat, or this practice is common in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia.
What is subsistence fishing?
This is what lead to bing changes in Thai culture.
Wat is migration to cities?
These are volcanoes that are inactive for long periods of time but can still suddenly erupt.
What are dormant volcanoes?
An area set near the 38th parallel that divides the countries of North and South Korea.
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
The Yellow River carries lots of this which gives it the yellowish color.
What is alluvium?
This is the largest river in Southeast Asia.
What is the Mekong?
This group opposed the communists in the Chinese Civil War.
Under the sea earthquakes cause these.
What are tsunamis?
This means an agreement to stop fighting.
What is armistice?
These storms bring heavy rains to the Korean Peninsula.
What are typhoons?
Southeast Asia used to be connected by small strips of land known as these.
What are land bridges?
Singapore grew largely thanks to these types of companies which operate in more than one country.
What are multinational corporations?
The variety of species in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This the exchanging of goods without money.
What is bartering?
These are dry grasslands found in Mongolia.
What are steppes?
This is the metal used for making aluminium that was once the main export for Malaysia.
What is bauxite?
Zheng He led this many expeditions between 1405 and 1433.
What is seven?