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ASIA, OCEANIA - Coggle Diagram
ASIA
WATER BODIES
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- Baykal Lake: It is located south of Russia, is the deepest in the world (1,620
m). It contains 20% of the liquid fresh water in the world, which makes it the
largest reservoir of water on Earth. It is also the oldest lake, it is 25 million
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- The Yangtze: It is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world
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considered the lifeblood of China. It drains one-fifth of the country’s land area,
is home to one-third of its population, and contributes greatly to
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- 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. The land between the two rivers, known as Mesopotamia,
was the center of the earliest civilizations, including Sumer and the Akkadian
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- The Persian Gulf: It has an area of more than 234,000 km2. The seabed
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- The Okhotsk Sea: It stretches for 1.5 million km2 between mainland Russia
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- The Bengal: It is the largest bay in the world, with an extension of almost 2.2
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RELIEF
Asia can be divided in five main physical regions: mountain systems,
plateaus, plains, steppes and deserts; also important are freshwater
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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. Plants native of Oceania are the eucalyptus, jacaranda, hibiscus, and
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are marsupials, among the endemic animals are the koala, kangaroo, and wallaby.
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