Large Bodies of Water
The third largest ocean in the world
What is the Indian Ocean?
The tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
An island east of the Korean Peninsula.
What is Japan?
River in China named for the muddy yellow silt it carries.
What is the Huang He (Yellow) River?
Japan's most populous city.
What is Tokyo?
An “arm” of the Pacific Ocean that lies between the continent of Asia and Japan.
What is the Sea of Japan?
Mountain range containing the world's tallest mountain.
What is the Himalayan Mountain Range?
Country south of China shaped like an "S."
What is Vietnam?
River that flows entirely through one country and is the longest river in Asia.
What is the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River?
This is of the region’s most important crops, grown in the Mekong river basin
What is rice?
Double Jeopardy
An “arm” of the Indian Ocean with India on its west; many large rivers, including the Ganges, flow into it.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
Asia’s largest desert that stretches across southern Mongolia and northern China
What is the Gobi Desert?
A country in both Europe and Asia.
What is Russia?
Flows through China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. One of the region’s most important crops is grown in the river basin.
What is the Mekong River?
Built to protect China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
An “arm” of the Pacific Ocean that lies between China and Korea; it becomes the East China Sea south of the Korean Peninsula
What is the Yellow Sea?
Located in northwestern China between two mountain ranges
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
Made up of around 17,000 islands, but only around 922 are inhabited.
What is Indonesia?
Starts in the Himalayan Mountains; most important river in India because it runs through the most fertile and highly populated areas; considered sacred by the Hindu religion.
What is the Ganges River?
A tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.
What is a typhoon?
Located south of China and north of Indonesia along the coast of Southern & Eastern Asia.
What is the South China Sea?
Extends out from China in between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; divided into two countries
What is the Korean Peninsula?
The only country in which the longest river in Asia flows through.
What is China?
Double Jeopardy
Begins high in the Himalayas and slowly runs through India and Pakistan; provides water for one of the largest irrigation systems in the world
What is the Indus River?
A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain
What is a monsoon?