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ASIA PHYSICAL
GEOGRAPHY
• Euphrates and Tigris Rivers are the region’s most important river
• Often called Fertile Crescent - the two river’s flooding produces great farm lands
• AKA – Mesopotamia – (land between rivers)– First great empires
• Babylonians
SOUTHWEST ASIA
PERSIAN GULF• Between the Arabian
Peninsula and Iran• Known as the Arabian
Gulf by the Arabs• 60% of all the Earth’s
oil can be found here• Was once the world’s
leading Pearl producer
SOUTHWEST ASIA
• Arabian Peninsula– Largest Peninsula
in Asia– Birth place of
Islam– Contains many oil
rich countries
• Subcontinent – Indian Plate has all characteristics of a continent, only smaller– Moves at a rate of two inches yearly– Himalayas are the largest mountain range
in the world• Sanskrit word meaning “Home of Snow”
– Language brought by Aryans
INDIAN
SOUTH ASIA PHYSICAL
• Mostly tropical– Sari – tradition
clothing made of single clothe ideal for India’s hot climate
• Thar Desert – in the west and in Pakistan– Great India desert
• Some Highland climate in the Himalayas
SOUTH ASIA CLIMATE
SOUTH ASIA• Monsoons – seasonal
winds• Largest influence on climate
– Wet Summer winds bring flooding
– Cold Winter winds bring drought
East ASIA CHINA
East Asia - china• Western 2/3 of
China are uninhabitable due to landforms:– Deserts • Gobi• Taklimakan
– Mountains• Himalayas• Plateaus of Tibet• Tian Shan• Hindu Kush
GobiDESERT
• Gobi – natural border of Mongolia and north China– “waterless place”– Caused by rain
shadow of the Himalayas
EAST ASIA – CHINA RIVERS
• Yellow (Huang)– northern central– Empties into the Yellow
Sea is yellow because of the surrounding soil
– Called “China’s Sorrow” due to flooding
• Yangtze (Chang)– central China– Most fertile– Site of Three Gorges
Dam
• Xi [shee] (Pearl)– southern most
Asian Wildlife• Panda Bear is
considered a national treasure
long-eared jerboa
Giant Salamander
Rainbow Mountain
• Made up of two large peninsulas– Malaysian – Indochina
• Many Archipelagos– Indonesia is the larges
country with 17,508 islands• Largest is Sumatra
– Philippines alone has 7,107 islands
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
• Climate mostly tropical
• Also affected by monsoon winds in the southern region
Southeast Asia