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Southwest Asia Physical Geography - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mediterranean climates prevail along Southwest Asia’s Mediterranean and Aegean coasts and across much of western Turkey. Winds blow off the seas, and they bring mild temperatures and moderate amounts of rainfall during the winter months. The summer months are warm and dry.
        
        Mountainous areas of eastern Turkey, western Iran, and central Afghanistan have continental climates in which temperatures vary greatly between summer and winter. The mountains that are included in the Hindu Kush range in far eastern Afghanistan fall within a highland climate zone, and glaciers are found among the soaring peaks.
- - - - North Iran has coasts along the landlocked Caspian Sea.
      - The Dead Sea is landlocked in between Israel and Jordan. The Dead Sea is the world's lowest body of water, and it's shore represents the lowest land elevation.
      - Southwest Asia's longest and most important rivers are the Tigris Euphrates. They start in the eastern mountains of Turkey within 50 miles of each other.In the lower courses, they flow parallel to one another across a broad alluvial plain, a plain created by sediment deposited during floods. The plain covers most of Iraq as well as eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. This area has been known since ancient times as Mesopotamia, which is Greek for “land between the rivers.” Thousands of years ago, one of the world’s earliest civilizations took root in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia.