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Asia and Oceania: reliefm hydrography, climate, asia, oceania, Oceania can…
Asia and Oceania: reliefm hydrography, climate
asia
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Saltwater
The Persian Gulf: It has an area of more than 234,000 km2. The seabed
beneath the Persian Gulf contains an estimated 50 percent of the world’s oil reserves
The Okhotsk Sea: It stretches for 1.5 million km2 between mainland Russia
and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The Bengal: It is the largest bay in the world, with an extension of almost 2.2
million km2. and bordering Bangladesh
ASIA’S BOUNDARIES
TO THE NORTH: ARCTIC OCEAN
TO THE SOUTH: INDIAN OCEAN
TO THE EAST: PACIFIC OCEAN
TO THE WEST: CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, CASPIAN AND BLACK SEA
RELIEF
Asia can be divided in five main physical regions: mountain systems,
plateaus, plains, steppes and deserts; also important are freshwater ecosystems and saltwater ecosystems
WATER BODIES Freshwater
- Baykal Lake: It is located south of Russia, is the deepest in the world (1,620m).
The Yangtze: It is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world
(behind the Amazon of South America and the Nile of Africa).
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin in the heights of Eastern Turkey and
flow from Syria and Iraq joining in the city of Qurna, Iraq, before emptying into the Persian Gulf
oceania
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FAUNA AND FLORA
Due to its isolation from the rest of the world, Australia and Oceania has an incredibly high number of endemic species, or species that are found nowhere else
on Earth.
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Oceania can be divided into three island groups: 3.1. Continental Islands, 3.2. High
Islands, and 3.3 Low Islands