5. LAND RELIEF AND WATER DISTRIBUTION IN ASIA

LOCATE ON THE PHYSICAL MAP THE LAND RELIEF OF ASIA (and the distribution of water):

MOUNTAINS - Himalaya (Everest, 8.847 metres, the highest mountain in the world) –

Altai Mountains – Zagros Mountains – Hindu Kush - Khangai

Mountains – Kolyma.

PENINSULAS - Kamchatka Peninsula – Hindustan Peninsula – Arabian Peninsula –

Korean Peninsula – Indochinese Peninsula – Peninsula Malaca.

DESSERTS - Gobi Desert – Taklamacan Dessert.

PLAINS - North China Plain – Yangtze Plain – Mekong Plain – Ganges Plain –

Indus Plain.

PLATEAUS - Central Siberian Plateau – Tibetan Plateau – Arabian Plateau -

Iranian Plateau – Yablonoi Plateau – Arabian Plateau.

ISLANDS/ARCHIPELAGOS - Indonesian Archipelago – Philippine Archipelago – Japanese

Archipelago – Sri Lanka Archipelago - Borneo Island – Maldives.

CAPES/GULFS/BAYS - Gulf of Anden – Gulf of Oman – Persian Gulf - Bay of Bengal.

RIVERS - Arctic Ocean watershed : Ob, Yenisei, Lena.

- Indian Ocean watershed: Ganges – Indus - Tigris – Euphrates.

- Pacific Ocean watershed : Red River, Yangtze (Blue River, the

longest River in Asia), Yellow River.

SEAS AND OCEANS - Aral Sea – Caspian Sea – Black Sea – Arabian Sea – Barents Sea –

Kara Sea - Bering Sea – Sea of Okhotsk – East China Sea –South

China Sea - Coral Sea – Pacific Ocean – Arctic Ocean – Indian

Ocean.