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Physical Geography of southwest Asia - Coggle Diagram
Physical Geography of southwest Asia
Waterways
Scarcity of water has shaped this region’s human history and settlement patterns
The region of Southwest Asia has thousands of miles of coastline.
Turkey coast the med and black sea
Jordan,Saudi Arabia and Yemen border the Red sea
The Euphrates river and the Tigris river coming from Iraq and Iran created Mesopotamia
The pershion gulf is next to the borders many of the contrys
Land forms
Climate
Natural Resources
Little rain each year
Warm and dry
mountains and plateaus dominant the land space
Lots of dunes in the dessert area
very little water in many southwest Asia countrys
alluvial plain, a plain created by sediment deposited during floods
the gaseous form of petroleum is called natural gas The liquid form is called crude oil
The Arabian Desert, which covers nearly the entire Arabian Peninsula, is the largest in the region and one of the largest in the world
Desert landscapes spread across most of Southwest Asia
Although rain is scarce in this region, rainfall can quickly transform the desert landscapes
At the margins of Southwest Asia’s dry zones lie areas that are considered semiarid
Crude oil is refined to produce energy sources such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, and industrial fuel oil
Scarcity of water has shaped this region’s human history and settlement patterns
The Arabian Desert is a harsh environment, but plants thrive in oases. An oasis is an area in a desert where underground water allows plants to grow throughout the year
Other natural resources, however, are found in abundance. The most important resources are two fossil fuels for which the world has a seemingly unquenchable thirst: oil and natural gas.
Southwest Asia’s two longest and most important rivers are the Tigris and the Euphrates, which are often considered parts of the same river system
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