PHYSICAL MAP OF THE CONTINENTS: ASIA.

General characteristics:

• Asia is the largest continent with a size of about 43 million square kilometers or  29% of the surface of the Earth.
• Asia is limited by the Glacial Artic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
• Is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea.
• From Africa by the Red Sea and the Sinai Peninsula.
• From America by the Bering Strait.

Continental relief.

The main features of the asian continental relief are:

• Plains: Western Siberian Plain, Indochina Plain and Indian Plain.
• Depressions: Aral, Caspian and Dead Seas.
• Plateaus located in the central and peripheral regions: Anatolian, Iranian, Tibetan, Siberian, Deccan and Arabian Plateaus.
• Mountain ranges: young mountains such as the Zagros Mountains and the Himalayas.

Continental relief of Asia.

Coastal relief.

The main features of the asian coastal relief are:

• Peninsulas: Kamchatka, Korean, Indochinese, Malay, Deccan, Arabian and Anatolian.
• Gulfs: Persian, Bay of Bengal, Thailand and Tonkin. 
• Islands: Sri Lanka.
• Archipielagos: Japan, Philippnes and Indonesian.

Peninsulas of Asia.

Archipielagos and gulfs of Asia.

Seas, river and lakes.

The main seas of Asia are the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kara Sea, the Bering Sea, the South China Sea, the Arabian Sea and Read Sea.
The Asian rivers are long and carry a high volume of water. The main rivers are: Yangtze (5.800 kilometers), the Ob, the Yenisei, the Lena, the Huang He, the Mekong, the Amur, the Ganges and the Indus.

About the lakes we can distinguish:

• saltwater lakes: Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Dead Sea.
• freshwater lakes: Lake Baikal

LINKS:

WARNING: Don't worry, if you are not able to identify all the landforms in these games. In the exam there will be only questions about the landforms that we have seen in class.

Continental relief of Asia
Asian rivers and lakes review game.
Asian coasts review game
Didactalia. Asian continental relief.
Didactalia. Asian rivers and lakes.
Review game about the main mountain ranges, rivers, lakes and seas of Asia.

ACTIVITIES:

Please, try NOT TO USE your book or notes in order to do this activties.

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Huge gulf located between the Deccan Peninsula and the Indochinese Peninsula.

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A huge plateau located between the Deccan Peninsula and the rest of Asia.

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A big península located in the East of Asia, next to the Japanese archipiélago.

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A sea located between Asia and America.

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You can find the solutions HERE.