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physical features of South west Asia, deffinitions, borders, borders,…
physical features of South west Asia
land forms
hindu kush range
borders Pakistan and Afghanistan
trade rute
khyber pass
Arabian peninsula
is also a plateau
mountain ranges on the sides of the peninsula’s are actually the deeply eroded edges of the plateau.
consist of Oman, Saudi Arabia,Yemen and several other smaller countries
Anatolian plateau
holds turkes highets peak ararat
home to a active volcano
spreads across west turkey
water ways
gulfs
persian gulf
important in world affairs
straight of Hormuz
connects Persian gulf gulf of Oman Arabian sea
very strategic in wars
seas
red sea
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
one of worlds busiest waterways
long, narrow
arabian sea
Oman
Yemen
south east of Arabian peninsula
part of Indian ocean
Mediterranean sea
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
Israel
turkey
dead sea
land locked
Israel
1,300 feet (396 m) below sea level
lowest body of water
Jordan
canals/rivers
Tigris river
flows through the alluvial plain
Euphrates
both created the lands of Mesopotamia
flows through the alluvial plain
suez canal
was completed in 1869
connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean
highly used waterway
climate
deserts
Rub' al-Khali
reddish-orange sands towering dunes
"empty quarter"
sand sea
The climate is so dry and hot that it cannot support permanent human settlements
nomadic people known as the Bedouin keep herds of camels, horses, and sheep
arabian desert
oasis
wadis
recorces
gas
liquid form is called crude oil
rubber/ plastoic
natural gas
gassiest form of patrolium
soulth west asia has larges deposets
fossile fule
minarals
gold
coblat
iron
lithium
coper
alluvial plain
fertile crescent
messopitamia
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
covers Iraq and eastern eastern Syria
deffinitions
sea
a large body of salt water that is part of connected to an ocean
bodies of water
any thing with water
borders
borders
borders
borders
The rivers begin within 50 miles of each other in the mountains of eastern Turkey
run parallel to each other
arid climate
mediteranian climate
highland climate
