Northern and Central Asia
The _________provide good grazing land. Siberia, in northeastern Russia, is a cold region with forests.
____________ is the world's third largest country in area: only Russia and Canada are larger. It is also the world's most populous nation.
China
Surrounded by the _______________ and ___________ Oceans, it provides the shortest water route between these two oceans.
Pacific
Indian
There are several important rivers in the Middle East, name one.
Jordan
Tigris
Euphrates
Geographers have called Europe a __________________
"peninsula of peninsulas.”
The ______________ Ocean, north of Russia.
Arctic
Korea is a ______________ extending from the northeastern coast of China.
peninsula
Most of South Asia is a ___________ - a large piece of land smaller than a continent.
subcontinent
__________ is the world's largest continent.
Asia
▪ There are many mountain ranges in Europe. Name 1
Alps
Pyrenees
Apennines
Balkans
_______________, a dry mountainous country in Central Asia, separates Iran and Russia from Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Important rivers include the Hwang Ho (Yellow River) and the Yangtze in China. These river valleys were the birthplace of early ______________.
civilizations
The ________________, north of India, are the highest mountains in the world.
Himalayas
The mild climate and fertile soil found along these rivers
made them centers of some of the world's earliest _________________.
Civilizations
Europe is the _____________ smallest continent in land area.
Second
▪ The __________ separate European and Asian Russia.
Ural Mountains
▪East Asia includes three important countries. Name 2
China, Korea, and Japan.
There are two main rivers of the Indian subcontinent. Name 1
Indus
Ganges
This is one of the main exports in resources from this region
Oil
Name 2 bodies of water around Europe
Atlantic Ocean
Mediteranean Sea
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Northern Asia is occupied by______________, which stretches from Eastern Europe to the Pacific.
Russia
The _______________ is located to the north of China in Mongolia.
Gobi Desert
__________________ also cut off Southeast Asia from the rest of the continent.
Mountains
The Middle East lies at the ________________ of
three continents, connecting Africa, Asia
and Europe.
"crossroads"
What is easier to do because Europe is a Peninsula?
Travel and Trade