Geographic Features
The natural border to the north of the South Asia region.
What are the Himalayas?
This Asia region is in between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer and is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Southeast Asia region?
In addition to being an industrial power, the South Asia region does this industrial activity thanks to its fertile river valleys.
What is farming?
Besides having a wet and dry season, the Southeast Asia region has many tourist because of this year-round climate.
What is tropical?
These were created in Russia and Central Asia to help with the problem of difficulty traveling and the transporting of oil and gas.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the pipeline?
This country of the East Asia region south of Mongolia is the second largest country in Asia behind Russia of the Russia and Central Asia region to the north of Mongolia.
What is China?
This Asia region is bordered by the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south.
What is the South Asia region?
The Russia and Central Asia region is heavily involved in this industry with countries all over the world, especially if they have automobiles.
What is oil?
In the East Asia region, this is evident from the smog, lack of proper waste disposal and sometimes wearing of masks by the people over their mouths and noses.
What is poor air quality?
This is a major problem that can be associated with urbanization in the highly populated regions of South, East and Southeast Asia.
What is pollution or waste disposal?
These originate in mountains and help create hydroelectric power in the East Asia region, and there is a sacred one in the South Asia region.
What are rivers?
The Russia and Central Asia region contains a group of countries referred to as "the stans" that can be described with this term meaning none of this area is in contact with water.
What is landlocked?
The East Asia region has changed from mostly subsistence and commercial farming industry to doing this activity that produces textiles, machinery and electronics.
What is manufacturing?
This major environmental issue is a destroyer of crops and causes people to live in temporary shelters and on boats in the South Asia region.
What is flooding?
This is used, in some cases too extremely as seen with the shrinking Aral Sea, as a solution to a lack of water especially for crops.
What is irrigation?
This natural border between Europe and Asia has kept invaders out of Asia in the past.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This Asia region has elevation change that can be described as like stair steps.
What is the East Asia region?
The Southeast Asia region has many resources from the forests for the lumber and timber industry as well as a variety of plants and trees for these aids to people.
What are medicines and drugs?
These climate conditions are reasons the Russia and Central Asia region is sparsely populated.
What is cold and windy or hot and dry?
These are built on plateaus and elevated land in East and Southeast Asia and are used for farming crops such as wheat and rice.
What are terraces?
The area in Southeast Asia appropriately named the "Ring of Fire" is because of these geographic features.
What are volcanoes?
This region of Asia is nearest by location to North Africa.
What is the Southwest Asia region?
This activity is done mostly in the mountains and desert areas of Asia.
What is nomadic herding and raising of livestock?
The East Asia region countries of Japan, South and North Korea all share these 2 major environmental problems because of overpopulation.
What are land shortage and limited resources?
South and Southeast Asia's clearing of land to create more farmland for more food for increased population results in this environmental problem.
What is deforestation?