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🌿 Western Ghats: India's Monsoon Wall

Read India’s Western Ghats through their long coastal edge, monsoon barrier, Palghat Gap, and exceptional biodiversity.

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~20 min

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🗺️ Geography

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Adults

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What you’ll learn

A mountain edge that changes the mapUse coast, mountain chain, and plateau to read the Western Ghats’ large-scale shape.The Ghats form a long, irregular mountain edge parallel to India’s west coast.
When wet air meets high groundExplain how the Ghats interact with southwest monsoon winds and rainfall.High ground intercepts rain-bearing air and helps create a wet-to-drier transition inland.
A break in the wall, many kinds of lifeConnect the Palghat Gap and the serial World Heritage property to the range’s ecological variety.A major gap interrupts the chain, while 39 protected components represent its changing habitats and biodiversity.

Questions this course answers

What does the Western Ghats’ position help explain?

UNESCO describes the Ghats as a barrier intercepting southwest monsoon winds.

How is the UNESCO World Heritage property organised?

UNESCO identifies 39 component parts grouped into seven sub-clusters.

What is the Palghat Gap?

UNESCO describes the chain as interrupted by the approximately 30-kilometre Palghat Gap.

What does UNESCO’s figure of at least 325 refer to?

UNESCO gives at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile, and fish species.

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