Geography

South Asia is mainly comprised of Tropical wet to Tropical wet and dry to the East of the region to Arid to Semi Arid in the west. The border on the north is comprised of Highland climates. The main rivers are the Gangus and the Indus rivers. The mountain ranges are the Himalayas, the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats.

The Deccan Plateau is to the south of India and encompasses Andgra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Most of the southern region is fertile rice growing region. It is bordered by the Western and Eastern Ghat Mountain Ranges. Deccan comes from the Sanskrit word dakshina, which means "South".
 * The Deccan Plateau**

The average height of the Deccan Plateau is around 2000ft or 600m. Its principal rivers are the Godavari, the Krishna and the Cauvery river. Having once been part of the ancient continent, Gondwanaland, it is one of the oldest and most stable areas in India. It consists of dry tropical forests which only have seasonal rainfall. On a side note, the eastern part of the Deccan Plateau, called Telangana, is made up of vast sheets of granite rock, which effectively traps water. (By Matthew Ash.)



The Karakoram Range is a long stretch of high-altitude mountains located in Pakistan. The range is made up of five major peaks which includes the world's second tallest mountain in the world, K2 which levels off at 8611m (28, 251ft).
 * Karakoram Range**

Some scientists hypothesized that the formation of the Karakoram range resulted a major climate change that made the glaciers shift roughly about 40 million years ago. The exposure of large amounts of plain rock (the earlier version of the Karakoram Range) caused the weathering of the rocks, resulting in the removal of greenhouse gas, causing the cooling of the atmospheric temperature, resulting the continuing periods of ice ages.(By Francis Lee)

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=__//The Himalayas//__= The Himalayas lie between India and China where it makes the northeastern border of the two nations. The Himalayas cover a wide range of 6,120,212 km Nepal and Bhutan is right on the Himalayas, making a niche. The scientists are predicting that the “continental drift theory” is right, which means that there is a possibility that the two plates hit each other and made a big mountain. India was actually a separate plate, which collided with Eurasian plate. Himalayas have some interesting facts! The word Himalaya means “Abode the snow!”, you might get the idea why. (Matthew Hahn)



Indus River
 The Indus river is one of the world’s longest rivers, measuring up to 1,800 miles. The annual average flow of the river is 272 billion cubic yards (207 billion cubic meters). It starts at the south of Pakistan from the Arabic Sea, then cuts through Pakistan heading up north and east to the Indian and Tibet borders.

The farmers of the Indus river valley grow wheat, barley, beans, sesame, rice, bananas, black pepper, mustard, and cotton crops. They had to be careful due to the floods of the Indus River, because it could destroy all their crops and destroy fertile soil. They built dirt walls and canals to deflect the water from destroying their fields.



By William Richter