Guide Questions

2. Guide Questions • What is the video clip all about? • How is it related to our topic or lesson in history?

3. Asian Geography Unit II-Asian History and Civilization Ms. Ethel Marie Y. Entrampas

4. Objectives • To explain different theories on the geological history of the Earth (Asia); • To identify longitudinal and latitudinal lines; • To be able to locate countries (relative and absolute locations) • To classify the different countries of Asia geographically; • To be able to familiarize/memorize different facts of Asian countries; • To differentiate different peoples of Asia according to their races • To enumerate the developmental indicators

5. DEFINITIONS • The study of the earth and its features History is to TIME; Geography is to SPACE Two types: Physical Geography Human Geography Climate Land/Water Forms Vegetation Population Interactions Culture

6. Geo-Vocabulary Words • Tundra – a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanentlyfrozen • Taiga – a coniferous forest extending across much of the subarctic North America and Euroasia bordered by tundra in the north and steppe in the south • Steppe – an extensive grassy plain usually without trees • Plateau – a wide mainly level area of elevated land • Subterranean – situated beneath the earth’s surface

7. Tributary – a branch that flows into the main stream • Peninsula – a large mass of land projecting into a body of water • Glacier – slowly moving mass of ice • Weir – a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow • Oasis – a fertile patch in a desert occuring where the water table approaches or reachers the ground surface • Atolls – a circular coral reef or string of coral islands surrounding a lagoon

8. THE EARTHEstimated Weight (mass)(5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons) Estimated Age 4.6 billion years Current Population 6,446,131,714 Surface Area (510,066,000 sq km) Land Area (148,647,000 sq km) 29.1%Ocean Area (335,258,000 sq km) Total Water Area (361,419,000 sq km) 70.9%Type of Water (97% salt), (3% fresh) 

9. CONTINENTAL DRIFT • All continents were once part of a supercontinent known as Pangaea (Pangea) which means all lands. • Divided into two: Laurasia (North) and Gondwanaland (South)

10. PLATE TECTONICS • Tectonics: to build • The crust floats over a semi-molten layer. • The crust is broken up into large small pieces called plates

11. These plates are always in motion • There are 14 major continental and oceanic plates • When one plate collides with another, it may divide or “subduct” underneath the other.

13. Tools used in Geography • Map (Climate, Political, Economic) • Globe

14. Types of Location Relative Absolute Locating a place using latitude and longitude lines • Locating a place using its neighboring place (vicinal) or body of water (insular) What is the difference of a longitudinal and latitudinal lines?

16. Geographical Regions Asian Regions and their Topography

17. Location • Asia occupies a large portion of the world • Its bounded by N – Arctic Ocean E – Bering Strait and Pacific Ocean S – Indian Ocean SW – Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea W – Ural Mountain Range

18. Major topographic Features • Mountain ranges - Himalayas, Karakoorum, Hindu Kush, Elburz, Caucasus, Pamirs, Taurus, Kunlun, Tian Shan, Urals • Highest Mountains - Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu

19. Largest Lakes - Aral Sea, Baikal, Balkhash, Caspian Sea and Dead Sea • Major Rivers - Amu Darya, Amur, Brahmaputra, Chao Phraya, Euphrates, Ganges, Huang Ho, Indus, Irrawaddy, Mekong, Ob, Salween, Tigris, Yamuna, Yangtze and Yenisey • Lowest Area - Dead Sea Coast

20. Geographical Regions • North or Central Asia • South Asia • East Asia • West /Southwest (Middle East) • Southeast

21. North Asia • Non-asians • Ural Mts. Divides Europe and Asia • Bering Strait borders it near North America • It has long winter seasons and occasional rains • It is a barren area • Oil, kerosene, iron, tin, copper, gold, diamond, and coal

22. South Asia {Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, & Bangladesh} • Also known as the Indian subcontinent • “The Crossroads” • A large part of South Asia suffers from drought while its middle part while its middle part is wet • It has a tropical weather • The Himalayas and Hindu Kush serves as shields against conquerors (North) • Wide valleys irrigated by water (South)

23. East Asia • This region is consist of various physical features • China – Gobi Desert, Mongolian and Tibetan plateaus3 river systems: Huang Ho, Yangtze, Xi Jiang • Japan – separated from mainland East Asia by the Korean Strait - compose of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido

24. Southeast Asia • Continental or Mainland {Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos } • Mountainous with occasional high plateaus, River systems include the Irrawaddy, Salween, Chao Phraya, Mekong and Red River • Insular or Island {Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore} • Made up of islands scattered over wide stretches of bodies of water

25. It has equal dry and wet seasons • No desert in this region • This region has the most number of islands in the world • Indonesia – petroleum • Malaysia - tin

26. Southwest Asia • Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Iran and Afghanistan • Meeting point of Europe, Africa and Asia • Extremely warm weather