Asia — Location and Physical Features

Two mountains that separate Asia from Europe are:

1. Ural mountains
2. Caucasus mountains

The Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta is the largest delta of the world.

The groups in which the countries of Asia are classified are:

1. South-East asia
2. South Asia
3. East Asia
4. West Asia
5. Central Asia

Russia and Turkey lie in both Asia and Europe.

The west siberian plain is formed by the deposition of silt brought by the north-flowing rivers such as the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena.

The Turan Plain is located in the South-west of the northern lowlands, around the Aral Sea.

Amu Darya and Syr Darya are two rivers that flow into the Aral Sea.

The mountain ranges which are to the west of the Pamir Knot are:

1. The Hindu kush mountains.
2. The Sulaiman Range
3. The Alai Range
4. Zagros Mountains
5. Elburz Mountains
6. Mount Ararat
7. Pontic
8. Taurus

The Plateau of Anatolia is also called Asia Minor. It lies between the Pontic and the Taurus mountains.

Three plateaus that lie to the south of the central highlands are:

1. The Plateau of Arabia
2. The Deccan Plateau of India
3. The Plateaus of Shan and Yunnan

Salween is a river that flows through the Shan Plateau.

Two rivers that have formed the Great Eastern Plains in China are:

1. Huang He
2. Chang Jiang

Some islands in Asia experience frequent earthquakes because they have dormant and active volcanoes.

Asia is separated from North America by the Bering Strait.

The Baikal Lake is the deepest lake in Asia.

The Plateau of Tibet is located between the Himalayas and the Kunlun range.

The Shan Plateau is in Myanmar.

The largest island group of the world is the Malay Archipelago.

1. The Land of the Golden Pagoda: Myanmar
2. The Land of the Golden Dragon: China
3. The Land of Thunderbolt: Bhutan
4. The Land of White Elephants: Thailand

Asia is called the 'continent of extremes' due to the following reasons:

1. It has the world's highest mountain peak, Mount Everest, and the lowest land depression, the Dead Sea.
2. It has recorded the lowest temperature in Verkhoyansk (-70°C), Russia, and the highest temperature in Jacobabad (50°C) in Pakistan.
3. Asia has the largest lake (Caspian Sea) and the deepest lake (Lake Baikal).
4. It receives the highest average annual rainfall at Mawsynram in Meghalaya (India) and there are vast areas which do not receive any rainfall for years.
5. The natural vegetation varies from tiny mosses and lichens to evergreen equatorial rain forests.
6. The largest delta in the world, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta, is found in this continent.
7. The Plateau of Tibet is the highest and the largest plateau in the world.

The West Siberian Plain is made up of silt brought by Ob, Yenisei and Lena rivers. The lower course of these rivers remain frozen during long winters and that's why the water that comes from the upper course spreads over large parts of the West Siberian Plain and form marshes and swamps.

Asia and Europe are together called Eurasia.

The places which have recorded the highest and the lowest temperatures in Asia are:

• Verkhoyansk (Russia) : -70°C
• Jacobabad (Pakistan) : 50°C

False. Mongolia is a part of East Asia.

Five physical divisions of Asia are:

1. The northern lowlands
2. The central highlands
3. The southern plateaus
4. The great river basins
5. The island groups

Amu Darya

Mawsynram

Japan

Lena

Zagros

Tigris

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