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Physical Geography of Southwest - Coggle Diagram
Physical Geography of Southwest
LANDFORMS
the Arabian Peninsula is shaped by the Persian Gulf
Mountains and plateaus dominate the landscape
Alluvial plain, a plain created by sediment deposited during floods. The plain covers most of Iraq as well as eastern Syria and
The Arabian Peninsula consists of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and several other countries.
Southwest Asia’s loftiest mountains rise in the Hindu Kush range, which stretches across much of Afghanistan.
Waterways
The Red Sea has been one of the world’s busiest waterways since Egypt’s Suez Canal,
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen border the long, narrow Red Sea.
Iran also borders the landlocked Caspian Sea.
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel have coasts on the Mediterranean Sea.
Turkey has coasts on the Mediterranean and Black Seas
Climate
Natural Resources
Torrents of water race through wadis (WAH-deez), or streambeds that are dry.
Petroleum is also the basic raw material used to make many other products, such as plastics, bicycle tires, and cloth fibers.
Crude oil is refined to produce energy sources such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, and industrial fuel oil
The gaseous form of petroleum is called natural gas, and the liquid form is called crude oil, or simply oil
Other natural resources, however, are found in abundance
Scarcity of water has shaped this region’s human history and settlement patterns.