CASE STUDY

Study 4

Physical Factors

Diagram illustrating my creative process

It is an archipelago consisting of some 7,100 islands and islets lying off the coast of Vietnam. Manila is the capital, but nearby Quezon City is the country’s largest city. Both are part of the National Capital Region (Metro Manila), located on Luzon, the largest island. The second largest island of the Philippines is Mindanao, in the southeast.Although volcanoes are a conspicuous feature of the landscape, there is relatively little volcanic activity. There are altogether about 50 volcanoes, of which more than 10 are known to be active. Mount Pinatubo on Luzon, once regarded as extinct, was in 1991 the site of one of the world’s largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century.