Asia Location: Subjective Type Flashcards
What is Eurasia?
Together with Europe, Asia is often reffered to as ‘Eurasia’
How is Europe separated from Asia?
- Europe is separated from Asia by the Ural mountains and Caspian Sea in the west.
- The Caucasus mountains separate Europe and Asia in the south-.west.
Which are the Oceans lying in the north, east and south of Asia respectively?
- North: Arctic Ocean
*East: Pacific
*South: Indian
Area of Asia- 45.03 million square kilometer
45.03 million square kilometer
Write a Short Note on East Asian Countries.
- East Asian countries consist of: China, Japan, N. and S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Mongolia.
- This Region has most varied vegetation.
- Rapid deforestation has destroyed most of its forests.
- Population: 1.6 billion
- Worlds most busiest cities: Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong
Write a short note on north Asia
- It comprises the northern part of Russia which includes the Siberian part of Russia and the Russian Far east.
- It has sparse population of 38 million as it is located in the sub artic region which experiences extreme cold climate.
- It is divided by Ural Mountains which lie in a North-South direction.
- Western Russia lies to West of Ural Mountains while the larger part Siberia and Russian Far east lie to the East.
Write a short note on Central Asia
*Consists of landlocked countries.
* Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan are a part.
* Extends from Caspian Sea to the border of W. china.
* More than 60% land is deserts and rest 40 percent is Grasslands.
* Altai Mts. in the East, mainly lying in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
* Main rivers: Amu Darya and Syr Darya
* Population: 67.3 million
Write a short note on South East Asia
- The northern part of south east asia consists of countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.
- The southern part consists of the island countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, East Timor and Philippines.
- It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the west.
- The Pacific Ocean lies in the East.
- This region has an abundance of tropical rainforests and wide variety of wildlife.
- Population is about 1823 millions.
Write a short note on South Asia
South Asia refers to the Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and Bangladesh.
* This region is home to above one fifth of the population which is an around 1.8 billion people
* It is bounded on the north by Himalayas.
* East by the Arabian sea
*Wide variety of natural vegetation and wildlife
West Asia
- Comprises Armenia, UAE, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, Cyprus, Syria Turkey, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
- Population - 257.23 million people
- Region is not densely populated due to inhospitable climate.
What are the five physical regions of Asia?
- Northern Lowlands
- The Central Fold Mountains and intermontane plateaux.
- The Southern Plateaux
- The Great River Valleys
- The Islands Chains
Write a short note on The Northern Lowlands.
*Also known as the Great Siberian Plains.
* Extends from the Ural Mountains in W upto Bering Strait in NE.
* Triangular in shape.
* Widest in the west.
* Lies between the Arctic Ocean in N and Central Mountains in the S.
* Form the world’s greatest continuous plains.
* Ob, Yenisey and Lena, flow northwards have built this plain.
* Marshy and Swampy lowlands as the lower courses and mouths of the river freeze in winter so water coming from the upper courses situated in warmer latitudes spreads out over large parts of the plains.
* Turan Plain lies to the south of Siberian Plains in Central Asia.
* This plain lies around the Aral sea and is an area of inland drainage, drained by Amu Darya and Syr Darya .
Write a short note of the Central Fold Mountains and Intermontane plateaux
- A complex system of fold mountain ranges with some plateaux in between lies in S of Northern Lowlands.
- Many mountain ranges meet at a small zone called pamir knot.
- They seem to radiate of the pamir knot.
- E and North : Kunlun and Tien Shan
- Himalayas extend in a South easterly direction from Pamir knot as a wide Arc across the northern extent of India.
- The Himalayas continue southwards as the Arkan Yoma range.
- The Karakoram Range extend S.E wards from the knot b/w the Kunlun and Himalayas.
- The Plateau of Tibet (an intermontane plateau) lies between Kunlun and Himalayas.
- Altai, Yablonovy and Stanovoy extend in a N.Eerly direction beyond Tien Shan up to the extreme N.E corner of Asia.
- The Khingan Mountains extend in N-S direction parallel to the coast.
- W of knot, Hindukush continues as Elburz mountains.
- Sulaiman radiates S-Wward and continues as the Kirthar and the Zagros which converge at Armenian knot, enclosing plateau of Iran.
- Pontine in the N and Taurus in the S. Radiate W. Ward from this knot, which are in the south of the Black Sea.
- They enclose plateau of Anatolia between them.
Write a short note on the Southern Plateaux
- The Arabian Plateau, Deccan Plateau and the Shan and Yunnan Plateaux are in the region S. of the Central Mountains and intermontane plateaux.
- Made of old, hard, crystalline rocks.
- At some height above sea level.
- Surfaces are undulating and gently sloping.
- The Arabian Plateau:
- Steeper in the west but gently sloped towards the east, Persian gulf.
- Dry Plateau, region of low rainfall.
- No rivers
- The Deccan Plateau
- Lies between Western Ghats and eastern ghats.
- Steeper and higher along the Arabian sea, gently sloping towards bay of Bengal in the East.
- Many rivers flow across this Plateau.
- The Shan Plateau in Myanmar and Yunnan Plateau in China are drained by the Rivers Salween, Mekong and Si Kiang.
Write a short note on the Great River Valleys.
- snowfed and perennial rivers rise in the mountains and plateaux of Asia.
- Valleys of these Rivers are very fertile, hence they are densely populated.
- The larger river valleys are built by Rivers Tigris, Euphrates, Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Menam, Yangtze, Huang He and Si Kiang
- Small plains have been formed along rivers Salween, Irrawaddy, Mekong and Amur.
- Mesopotamian plains in Iraq is the plain formed by the River Tigris and Euphrates.
- River Indus and it’s five tributaries have together built the fertile plains of Pakistan and Punjab.
- The Ganga-Brahmaputra plains lie to the East of the river Indus. These plains are spread across North India and Bangladesh.
- Other large plains in China are built by Huang He, Yangtze and Si Kiang River.
- The Manchurian plains are formed by the River Amur.
- Indo-China plains are formed by rivers Mekong and Menam.
- River Irrawaddy forms a large plain in Myanmar.
