Identifier: regionalgeograp00broo (find matches)
Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is the case with Mediterranean lands, butthe rainiest season is summer, when winds tend to in-flow from sea to land. It will thus be seen that thesewarm temperate eastern marginal lands really have atemperate monsoon climate. The occurrence of the heaviest rains in the seasonof greatest heat, i.e. summer, ensures an abundantnatural vegetation. Most of these regions were formerlyforest covered with such broad-leaved trees as oaks,beeches, wahiuts and magnolias, together with muchundergrowth of evergreens resembling the bushes foundin Mediterranean regions, e.g. plants of the laurel type.A wide range of cultivated plants is also found, andthis helps to make these regions some of the worldsgreatest agricultural areas. In S.E. United States,cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco are the chief crops,while in addition to these, tea and silk (mulberries) arcimportant in China and Japan. Many of these cropsare cultivated successfully in the three regions of the REGIONS IN WARM TEMPERATE LANDS 23 \
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24 MAJOR NATURAL REGIONS OF WORLD Southern Hemisphere belonging to this type, e.g. S.E.Brazil and Uruguay, Natal, and the eastern part of theCape of Good Hope, and the coastal margins of NewSouth Wales and southern Queensland. It should benoted that these southern regions differ from the twonorthern areas in having milder winters. They are alsomuch smaller in extent, partly owing to relief, andpartly to the southward tapering of the southerncontinents. (c) The Turan Type. Regions of this type are interior lowlands situatedin the warm temperate belt. The term lowland mustbe interpreted liberally so as to include the highplains east of the Rockies and the Andes. The typeobtains its name from the interior lowlands of Eurasia,which stretch from the Caspian and Aral Seas to themountain barrier of Central Asia. In North Americawe find comparable lands west of the lOOth meridianwest of Greenwich, which, as a glance at a rainfall mapwill show, closely coincides with the isohyet of 20inches, a

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