Asia Test Chapter 2 Flashcards
Highest peak
Mt. Everest
World’s Highest Plateau
Tibet
World’s Largest Peninsula
Arabian Peninsula
Coldest desert besides Antarctica
Gobi Desert
Largest city in the world
Tokyo, Japan
Largest continent in size and population
Asia
Lowest point on earth (on a continent)
Dead Sea
Most populous country in the world
China
Second most populous country in the world
India
Highest mountain range in the world
Himalayas
Man-made body of water separating Asia from Africa
Suez Canal
Two mountain ranges that separate Europe from Asia
Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains
Countries located on the Indian subcontinent
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives
Countries in the Fertile Crescent
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq
Modern day country created in 1948 for Jews
Israel
3 countries under Soviet communistic (Russian) rule
Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan
Countries in French Indochina
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Strait between Asia and North America
Bering Strait
Sea between Africa and Asia
Red Sea
Sea south of Saudia Arabia
Arabian Sea
Country off the northern coast of Australia
Indonesia
Main religion of the Middle East
Muslim/Islam
Country w/the largest Muslim population in the world
Indonesia
Main export of the Middle East
Oil
Man who wrote a book that inspired Columbus to sail west to get to the East Indies
Marco Polo
Full name of the militant organization that uses terror to demand land for an independent Palestinian state
Palestine Liberation Organization
Country under the strict caste system
India
Only country with Roman Catholicism as main religion
The Philippines
Country with more livestock than any other country in the world
India
