GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Khmer People, Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Salween River
8 Dec 2020
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The irrawaddy flows south and can go up as high as mandalay. Concerns today that the irrawaddy is under threat from hydro electric development which will impede its biodiversity. Salween river is on the western side of the shan hills (the east side of the country) Burma continues down into a peninsula shared with thailand going south. Burma has a large plateau which has a savannah biome (like india and africa) Winters in burma can get cold, they have a monsoon season in the summer. Burma grows lots of food on the lake when it raises (produce like tomatoes, melon), which causes some lake degradation. Lots of erosion in burma because of rain. Grow grain within ravines in mountains so that when it rains the water flows down onto the grains. All trees left in burma are very drought resistant. Mini continent of ancient lifted crust in the middle of the south china sea.
