Characteristics of Asia

2. Geography
 Comes from aGreekwords
GEO–Earth
GRAPHIEN–Towrite or
describe

3. Continents
Countries
Regions
Water Forms
Land Forms
Way of Life of the the People in the area

4. Changeof Paradigm
One that serves asapattern or model.
Paradigm
Paradigm
Shift

5. Changeof Paradigm

6. Geocentric

7. The world before…

8. ThePamirs

9. Pacific Ringof Fire

10. Asia’sDeserts
Rub-al-Khali Empty Quarter
SaudiArabia

11. Garaqum-Black Sand
Turkmenistan

12. Qyzlkum or RedDesert
Uzbekistan

13. GobiDesert Mongolia
Coldest

14. Plateaus
…also called ahigh plain or
tableland, is an area ofhighland,
usually consisting of relatively
flat terrain.
Deccan Plateau -India

15. Anatolia -Turkey
Iranian Plateau
Arabian Plateau

16. RiversandLakes
Yellow River/
Huang Ho
Yangtze River
YuanRiver
CHINA

17. YELLOWRIVER

18. IRAQ
TIGRI
S
RIVER
EUPRATES
RIVER

19. INDUSRIVER
BHAMAPUTRA
GANGESRIVER

20. Mekong River
(South EastAsia)

21. LAKES
Dead Sea- Israel/Palestine
Deepest lake in theworld

22. CaspianSea
Largest in theWorld

23. LakeBaikal
Oldest and Deepest in the World
Russia

24. Indian Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
Artic Ocean

25. Boundaries/Regions

26. Boundaries/Regions?
1.Culture
2.Location
What determines…

27. Egypt
Culturally:Asian
Geographically:Africa

28. Natural Resourcesand
BasicInformation about
CHINA

29. CHINA
MAINLAND CHINA
HONGKONG
TAIWAN
MACAU
Mongolia
Tibet

30. CHINA:The Middle
Kingdom Zhongguo

31. Forbidden Kingdom-Beijing

35. Most populouscountry
One child policy

36. Distribution of Chinese
population
Pattern?

38. Loess: Sediments

39. Huang Ho River China’s Sorrow

40. Agriculture in China
1.Rice
2.Vegetables
3.Cotton
4. T
ea
5.Wheat
6. Corn
7.Goat
8. Pig
9. Sheeps

41. What will be the future for this?
Precarious
Uncertain
Danger

42. 1
0
%Forest
Zhangjiajie National ForestPark

43. Minerals inChina
Iron Ore Steel

44. Fushun Province Coal
Electricity
Heat

45. Sufficient in oil -Szechwan

46. Peony:Symbolof wealth
and nobleness

47. Hydropower resources:
680 millionkilowatts

48. Taiwan :Formosa

49. Taiwan
ChineseTaipei

50. HongKong

51. HongKong
British Colony since1843.
Lease to Great Britain in 1898 for a period of 99 years
Returned to China in 1997

52. Hong KongSpecial
Administrative Region

53. Hong Kong
(Fragrant Harbor)
Hilly
Mountanous
Steep slopes

54. Scarcity of Land:
Reclamation

56. Poor in Natural Resources
(except minerals) butthey
develop their INDUSTRIES:
textiles, plastics and
technology
Import
RawMaterials
From other
countries
Tourism

57. Macau -China

58. Macau, China
Macau was the first European base in the Far East.
Macau SpecialAdministrative Region ofChina – Dec.
20, 1999
-One country, twosystems (China’s socialist economic
system will not be practiced in Macau. 1987)
-Macau will have a high degree of autonomy in all
matters except foreign And defenseaffairs
for the next 50 years.

59. Macau

60. Macau :Flat terrain,
reclamation, no arable land.

61. FishingIndustry

62. Macau’s economyhas
remained one of the most
open in the world.Tourism
and liberalization of
gaming industry.

65. Mongolia :Landlocked
country

68. Japan
Japan is the Land of the Rising Sun
The Japanese call their country:NIPPON
“SUN ORIGIN

69. 4 MAIN ISLANDS-JAPAN
SOUTH:Humid Sub-Tropical
North: HumidContinental

70. Agriculture
Not suitable for Agriculture: too mountianous
or not suitable for farming 80%
Rice, Potatoes,T
ea

71. Agriculture

72. Fisheries

73. EconomicMiracle in 1945
Japan became one of the
World’s leading industrialsuperpower

74. Assignment:
Kyoto Protocol
Background
Objectives
What countries considered to be the
Top-10emitters.