During the colonial period, colonial powers had a significant effect on Southeast Asia. The physiography of Southeast Asia has been formed to a large extent by the convergence of three of the Earth's major crustal units: the Eurasian, Indian-Australian, and Pacific plates.
Explanation:
Besides the Europeans, Japanese and the Americans used to colonize Southeast Asian countries as well. Southeast Asians were under the European powers because Asian empires and kingdom declined while the Europeans became stronger.
Upwelling is a process of the winds that drives away the warm water from the surface and bring up the cold and dense water from below.
Obliquity is the nature of the axial tilt of the earth i.e 23.5 ° Due to the equator bulge and other properties of the earth.
The thermohaline circulation is the global circulation of the waster that is created by the gradient flow of the surface heat and the freshwater influxes.
Milankovitch cycles are the effect of the changes in the earth's movements in climatic patterns over a thousands of years period.
Eccentricity is the orbital rotation of the earth around the sun on its axis and has more of a circular elliptical path.
The precession is the change in the orientation of the axial tilt of the planet in reference to the rotating body.
