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| shifting agriculture | a type of agriculture in which farmers move to new areas every few years |
| intensive agricullture | agriculture that uses much human labor |
| What are Southeast Asia's three landform regions? | Northern mountain ranges, central plains and plateaus, thousands of islands |
| What are the two major climates in the region? | humid tropical and tropical savanna |
| What are the region's most important exports? | Agricultural products, lumber and minerals |
| What ethnic groups live ine ach country of mainland Southeast Asia? | Vietnamese, Chinese, Montagnards in Vietnam; Lao Hmong, and others in Laos; Khmers in Cambodia; Thais, Chinese, Lao, mountain peoples in Thailand; Burmans in Myanmar. |
| To which countries in the region is the production of rice important and how? | Rice is important to all five countries, both as a source of food and as an export. |
| How would you characterize political events in the region over the past few decades? | Political events might be characterized as often unstable and violent. |
| What type of government does each country in the region have today? | Today, Vietnam and Laos have COmmunist governments; Cambodia is making a transition to democracy; Thailand is a constitutional monarchy; Myanmar has a military government. |
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