1500 miles Himalayas - Indian Ocean

Name = Hindu goddess

River = sacred to Hindus

Heavily polluted = People

Mountainous plateau of Tibet - east of Yellow Sea

2nd longest river = china

Civilization in China began center of river basin

Muddy yellow silt = named after

Silt = Rich topsoil

Annual floods = dangerous path

Tibetan Plateau - East China Sea

Longest river in China

3,400 miles+

3rd longest in the world

Provides hydroelectric power, water, and transport

Connected by one of the world’s oldest canal systems

Extension of the Indian Ocean.

Large rivers flow into this bay

India on its west and Myanmar on its east

Third largest of Earth’s five oceans.

Between Africa, Asia, and Australia

Small sea

Bound by Russia, Korean Peninsula, and Japan

Arm of the Pacific Ocean

Between the Asian continent and Japan

Large deposits of mineral resources and lots of fish

Important to Japan’s economy

Between Vietnam and the Philippines

Connected by the Pacific and Indian oceans

International shipping channels

Violent monsoons and typhoons

Extension of the Pacific Ocean

Empties into the Yellow Sea.

Well known fishing industry

Overfishing = fish have declined

Asia’s largest desert

Goes across southern Mongolia and northern China

Covered with sand and bare rock = exposed by powerful winds

Known as “Shamo” = “sand desert”

Can be hot and cold

Between two rugged mountain ranges

600 miles+

One of the longest deserts in the world

Sand dunes cover 85%

little annual precipitation

Dry environment

Across the northern part of the Indian subcontinent + southern border of China

It forms a natural border in between India and China

200 miles+

Highest mountain region

sometimes called “the roof of the

world”

9/10 worlds largest peaks are located here.

Mt everest is part of the himalayas and world's highest mountain

Comes out of northeastern China