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ASIA AND OCEANIA - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The biggest island
        is from Australia (7'700,000 km2)
    - - The smallest of the island / country is Nauru with 21 km2
    - - Its extreme points are, to the north, the Kure atoll, in Hawaii, USA and the Macquarie South Australian island, which lies halfway between Australia and Antarctica. the west point, is that of Dirk Hartog island in Australia and the east of the Easter Island in Chile.
  - - - HIGH ISLANDS
        
        Called islands of volcanic origin, due to the eruptions that formed layers of the earth over millions of years. From there its name of high island.
        
        MELANESIA
        
        The island of the Melanesia region contains many islands of high because it is an important part of the "Ring of Fire", a chain of volcanoes around the border of the Pacific Ocean
        
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        Important volcanic mountains in Melanesia include Mount Tomanivi, in Fiji, Mount Lamington, in Papua New Guinea; and Mount Yasur, in Vanuatu.
      - LOWER ISLANDS
        
        Low islands that usually take the form of an irregular ring of very small islands, called an atoll, in the vicinity of a lagoon
        
        Atolls are defined as an island, even though they are made up of several
        coral communities.
        
        The low islands are also called coral islands. They're made of the skeletons and living bodies of small marine animals called corals
        
        The island of Micronesia regions and
        Polynesia are dominated by the low islands
        
        MICRONESIA
        
        POLYNESIA
        
        KWAJALEIN
        
        The Kwajalein Atolls, for example, are made up of 97 islands and islets located in the Marshall Islands surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world
      - CONTINENTAL ISLANDS
        
        PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
        
        These three regions share some physical characteristics. All three have mountain the ranges or highlands, the Great Dividing Range, Australia, North Island Volcanic of the Plateau and the South of the Alps of New Zealand; and the New Guinea Highlands in Papua New Guinea.
        
        ZEALAND
        
        NEW GUINEA
        
        AUTRALIA
        
        Australia, Zealandia, and New Guinea are
        continental islands.
  - - - Due to its isolation from the rest of the world, Australia and Oceania have a incredibly high number of endemic species or species found nowhere else on earth. The native plants of Oceania are eucalyptus, jacaranda, hibiscus, and the tree breadfruit.
    - - Many of the most familiar to the native animals of Australia and Oceania They are marsupials, among endemic animals are the koala, kangaroo, and wallaby.
- - - - POPULATION
        
        4,366’689.881 (2015)
        
        By size and population, Asia is the biggest continent in the world. With 44.5 million km2, including its adjacent islands, it covers 8,7% of the terrestrial surface of the earth and almost 30% of the emerged lands. Six of every ten inhabitants of the earth live in Asia.
      - EXTENSION
        
        44'541.138 KM2
        
        ncluding its adjacent islands, which covers 8.7% of the land area of the
        land and almost 30% of the emerged land
      - NUMBER OF COUNTRIES
        
        FORTY SEVEN COUNTRIES
      - LANGUAGES
        
        TWENTY FIVE
      - HIGHEST PEAK/ MOUNTAIN
        
        EVEREST
        
        8.850 above sea level , in the Himalayas
      - LONGEST RIVER
        
        Yangtze 6.300 km
      - MORE EXTENSIVE LAKE
        
        CASPIAN SEA
        
        Extension 371,000 km2 of salt water and Lake Baykal
        31,500 km2 of fresh water
      - ASIA LIMITS
        
        Asia is bordered to the west by the Urals, and the Caspian and the Black Sea. To the east, with the Pacific Ocean. To the north, with the Arctic Glacial and to the south with the Indian Ocean.
    - - Asia can be divided into five major physical regions: mountain systems,
        plateaus, plains, steppes and deserts
    - - THE HIMALAYAS
        
        The Himalayan mountains, stretch for about 2,500 kilometers,
        which separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia
      - TIEN SHAN
        
        Mountain system stretches for around 2,400 kilometers, both sides of the Kyrgyz-China border.
        
        Tien Shan means "Heavenly Mountains" in Chinese
      - URAL MOUNTAINS
        
        they extend for about 2,500 km on an indirect line fromnorth to south of Russia to Kazaajstan, and they are the oldest mountains in theworld, with between 250 and 300 million years.
    - - THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
        
        It is considered the largest in the history of the earth, with an average height of 5,000 meters above sea level. It is known as the "roof of the world".
        
        DECCAN PLATEAU
        
        With an average height of 600m it makes up the majority of South India.
        
        IRANIS PLATEAU
        
        It covers more than 3.6 million km2 and covers most of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is not flat, but contains some high mountains and deep watersheds
    - - CENTRAL ASIAN LANDSCAPE
        
        It is dominated by steppes, grassy areas without forests. Mongolia is part of that Asian landscape with a steppe with trees, and another arid one with the steppe and desert
        
        THE RUB AL KHALI DESERT
        
        It is the largest sand desert in the world, it covers the area of Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The desert is practically uninhabitable, except for the Bedouin tribes who live on its edges.:
        
        THE WESTERN PLAIN OF SIBERIA
        
        The West Siberian Plain, located in central Russia, It extends from north to south, about 2,400 kilometers and from west to east about 1,900 kilometers.
    - - SWEET AND SALTY
        
        SALT WATER BODIES
        
        THE SEA OF OKHOLSK
        
        It spans 1.5 million km2 between the Russian mainland and the Kamchatka Peninsula. This sea largely freezes between October and March.
        
        THE BAY OF BENGALA
        
        It spans 1.5 million km2 between the Russian mainland and the Kamchatka Peninsula. This sea largely freezes between October and March
        
        PERSIAN GULF
        
        It has an area of more than 234,000 km2. The bottom of the sea of the Persian Gulf contains an estimated 50 percent of the world's oil It reserves.
        
        FRESH WATER BODIES
        
        THE RIVER YANGTZE
        
        It is the longest river in Asia is considered the soul of China, and contributes greatly to the economy of China
        
        THE TIGERS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS
        
        TIGRIS RIVER
        
        They are rivers originating in the heights of the Eastern region of Turkey and flow from Syria and Iraq to join in the city of Qurna, Iraq, before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
        
        EUFRATES RIVER
        
        Baikal lake
        
        It is located in the south of Russia, it is the deepest in the world with 1,620 meters deep. It contains 20% of the liquid freshwater in the world, making it the largest reservoir of water on Earth.