Is this picture of the Gobi Desert or Himalayan Mountains?
Himalayan Mountains
This river starts in the Himalayas and flows southeast through India and Bangladesh for more than 1,500 miles to the Indian Ocean.
The highest peak in the Himalayan Mountains.
What is Mt. Everest?
This is an extension of the Indian Ocean. Bay of Bengal or Yellow Sea?
The river is named for the muddy yellow silt that it carries along its path to the Yellow Sea.
The _____ Desert is known as “Shamo”, the Chinese word for “sand desert”. Gobi or Taklimakan?
What is the Gobi Desert?
The Huang He (Yellow River) empties into the _______.
Gobi or Taklimakan Desert?
The _______ is a small sea that is bound by Russia to the north, the Korean Peninsula to the west, and Japan to the east. South China Sea or Sea of Japan?
It’s the largest and longest river in China (over 3,400 miles) and the third-longest in the world. The Ganges or Yangtze?
This desert lies between two rugged mountain ranges in northwestern China.
The ______ Peninsula is a mountainous peninsula that juts out of northeastern China in between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
The ___________ connects the Pacific and Indian oceans, so many of the world’s international shipping channels run through it. There are also often violent monsoons and typhoons in this region.
Since the end of World War II in 1948, the peninsula has been divided into two countries: ________ Korea and ________ Korea.