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Asian Geography
Unit II-Asian History and Civilization
Ms. Ethel Marie Y. Entrampas
Objectives
• To explain different theories on the geological
history of the Earth (Asia);
• To identify longitudinal and latitudinal lines;
• To be able to locate countries (relative and
absolute locations)
• To classify the different countries of Asia
geographically;
• To be able to familiarize/memorize different facts
of Asian countries;
• To differentiate different peoples of Asia
according to their races
• To enumerate the developmental indicators
DEFINITIONS
• The study of the earth and its features
History is to TIME; Geography is to SPACE
Two types: Physical Geography
Human Geography
Climate
Land/Water Forms
Vegetation
Population
Interactions
Culture
Geo-Vocabulary Words
• Tundra – a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the
subsoil is permanently frozen
• Taiga – a coniferous forest extending across much of the
subarctic North America and Euroasia bordered by
tundra in the north and steppe in the south
• Steppe – an extensive grassy plain usually without trees
• Plateau – a wide mainly level area of elevated land
• Subterranean – situated beneath the earth’s surface
• Tributary – a branch that flows into the main stream
• Peninsula – a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
• Glacier – slowly moving mass of ice
• Weir – a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert
its flow
• Oasis – a fertile patch in a desert occuring where the water table
approaches or reachers the ground surface
• Atolls – a circular coral reef or string of coral islands surrounding
a lagoon
THE EARTH
Estimated Weight (mass)
(5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons)
Estimated Age 4.6 billion years
Current Population 6,446,131,714
Surface Area (510,066,000 sq km)
Land Area (148,647,000 sq km) 29.1%
Ocean Area (335,258,000 sq km)
Total Water Area (361,419,000 sq km) 70.9%
Type of Water (97% salt), (3% fresh)
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• All continents were once part of
a supercontinent known as
Pangaea (Pangea) which
means all lands.
• Divided into two: Laurasia
(North) and Gondwanaland
(South)
PLATE TECTONICS
• Tectonics: to build
• The crust floats over a
semi-molten layer.
• The crust is broken up into
large small pieces called
plates
• These plates are always in motion
• There are 14 major continental
and oceanic plates
• When one plate collides with
another, it may divide or “subduct”
underneath the other.
Tools used in Geography
• Map (Climate, Political,
Economic)
• Globe
Types of Location
Relative
• Locating a place using its
neighboring place
(vicinal) or body of water
(insular)
Absolute
• Locating a place using
latitude and longitude
lines
What is the difference of a longitudinal and
latitudinal lines?
Geographical Regions
Asian Regions and their Topography
Location
• Asia occupies a large portion of the world
• Its bounded by
N – Arctic Ocean
E – Bering Strait and Pacific Ocean
S – Indian Ocean
SW – Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
W – Ural Mountain Range
Major topographic Features
• Mountain ranges
- Himalayas, Karakoorum, Hindu Kush,
Elburz, Caucasus, Pamirs, Taurus,
Kunlun, Tian Shan, Urals
• Highest Mountains
- Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse
and Makalu
• Largest Lakes
- Aral Sea, Baikal, Balkhash,
Caspian Sea and Dead Sea
• Major Rivers
- Amu Darya, Amur, Brahmaputra, Chao
Phraya, Euphrates, Ganges, Huang Ho,
Indus, Irrawaddy, Mekong, Ob,
Salween, Tigris, Yamuna, Yangtze and
Yenisey
• Lowest Area
- Dead Sea Coast
Geographical Regions
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North or Central Asia
South Asia
East Asia
West /Southwest (Middle East)
Southeast
North Asia
• Non-asians
• Ural Mts. Divides Europe and Asia
• Bering Strait borders it near North America
• It has long winter seasons and occasional rains
• It is a barren area
• Oil, kerosene, iron, tin, copper, gold, diamond,
and coal
South Asia {Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Bhutan, & Bangladesh}
• Also known as the Indian subcontinent
• “The Crossroads”
• A large part of South Asia suffers from drought
while its middle part while its middle part is wet
• It has a tropical weather
• The Himalayas and Hindu Kush serves as
shields against conquerors (North)
• Wide valleys irrigated by water (South)
East Asia
• This region is consist of various physical
features
• China – Gobi Desert, Mongolian and Tibetan
plateaus
3 river systems: Huang Ho, Yangtze, Xi Jiang
• Japan – separated from mainland East Asia by
the Korean Strait
- compose of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu
and Hokkaido
Southeast Asia
• Continental or Mainland {Myanmar, Thailand,
Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos }
• Mountainous with occasional high plateaus, River
systems include the Irrawaddy, Salween, Chao
Phraya, Mekong and Red River
• Insular or Island {Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Brunei and Singapore}
• Made up of islands scattered over wide stretches of
bodies of water
• It has equal dry and wet seasons
• No desert in this region
Countries
Rivers
Myanmar
Irrawaddy
Thailand
Chao Phraya
Laos
Mekong
Cambodia
Mekong
South Vietnam
Mekong
North Vietnam
Red River
• This region has the most number of islands
in the world
• Indonesia – petroleum
• Malaysia - tin
Southwest Asia
• Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates,
Iran and Afghanistan
• Meeting point of Europe, Africa and Asia
• Extremely warm weather