World Geography
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Eastern & Westerm Ghats | Location:Eastern Ghats-A mountain range that runs along the east coast of India. Location: Western Ghats- A mountain range that runs along the west coast of Inda. Description: Two mountain ranges forming the edges of the Deccan plateau in southern India. |
| Himalaya Mountains | Location:A mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest moutain peek. Description: A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2414 km (1500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India. |
| Hindu Kush Mountains | Location: A mountain range in eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Description: A mountain range of southwest Asia extending more than 805 km (500 mi) westward from northern Pakistan to northeast Afghanistan. |
| Karakorum Mountains | Location:A mountain range in norhtern pakistan, northern India and southwestern China. Description: An extension of the Hindu Kush, it rises to 8,616.3 miles. |
| Kunlun Mountains | Location: A mountain range in western China. Description: It extends for 1,250 mi (2,000 km) through the western regions of China. |
| Qinling Shandi Mountains | Location: A mountain range that divides the northern part of China from the southern part. Description: A natural boundary between the North and South of the country, and support a huge variety of plant and wildlife, some of which is found nowhere else on Earth. |
| Brahmaputra River | Location: A river starting in China that flows east, then west and south through Bangladesh where it joins the Ganges River, together Description: flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges . |
| Chang Jiang River | Location: The longest river in Asia; flows from the Xizang (Tibet) across China to the East China Sea. Description: The longest river of China and of Asia, flowing about 5,551 km (3,450 mi) from Xizang (Tibet) to the East China Sea. |
| Ganges River | Location & Description: A river that rises in the central Himalayas, flows eastward across norhtern India, and joins the Brahmaputra river; together they form a huge delta before entering the Bay of Bengal. |
| Huang He River | Location: A Chinese river that rises in the Kunlun Mountains, flows east for about 30,000 miles, empties into the Yellow Sea. Description: A river of northern China rising in the Kunlun Mountains and flowing about 4,827 km (3,000 mi) |
| Indus River | Location: A river that flows west and then south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Description: It is one of the world's longest rivers, with a length of 1,800 mi (2,900 km). |
| Xi Jiang River | Location:A river that flows through southeast China, joins the Pearl River and empties into the South China Sea. Description: Long, rising in southeast China and flowing generally eastward to the South China Sea . |
| Three Gorges Dam | Location:Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) Description:A dam under construction in 2001 by China eventually it will span a valley more than one mile wide. |
| Alluvial Plains | Location: By the Ganges River Description: land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand or gravel depositited by running water. |
| Deccan Plateau | Location: A large plateau in central India. Description: India |
| Indo-Gandetic Plain | Location: A plain in northern India and Bangladesh that lies between the Deccan Plateau and the northern mountains. Description: Most heavily populated area in South Asia. |
| Jakota Triangle | Location: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Description: A zone of prosperity during the 1980's and early 1990's- Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. |
| Kashmir | Location: A territory located at the foot of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan, northern India and southwestern China. Description- A region of norhtern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought. |
| Pacific Rim | Description & Location- An economic and social region including the countries surrounding the Pacfic Ocean, extending clock-wise from New Zealand in the western Pacific to Chilie in the eastern Pacific and including te west coast of the United States. |
| Taklimakan Desert | Location: A desert located in western China between the Tian and Kunln Mountains. Descriprion: 17th worlds larges desert in the world. |
| Gobi Desert | Location: A large desert that streches from northern China into Mongolia. Description: A prime area to find dinosaur fossils. |
| Atoll | Location: Some where around another chain of islands. Description:A ringlike coral island or sting of small islands surrounding the earth. |
| subcontinent | Location: Anywhere where there is land that is smaller than the land mass. Description:A land mass that is like a continent, only smaller, such as South Asia, which is called the Indian subcontinet. |
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