PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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EAST ASIA

• INCLUDES
• China
• Japan
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Mongolia
• Taiwan

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AUSTRALIA

• Island
• Nation
• Continent
• Neighbor with New Zealand

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OCEANIA

• Melanesia
• Micronesia
• Polynesia

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PLATEAUS, Rivers, Deserts

• Plateau of Tibet
• Roof of the World
• Highest plateau on Earth
• Covers one fourth of China

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Plateaus, RIVERS, Deserts

• Huang He (Yellow) River
• Named for fine yellow silt
• Floods often
• Chang Jiang River
• Over 3,400 miles long
• Longest river in China
• Xi Jiang River
• Southernmost river in China

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Plateaus, Rivers, DESERTS

• Taklimakan Desert
• who goes in, does not come out
• One of the worlds largest sandy deserts
• Gobi Desert
• waterless place
• Temperatures are extreme (from -40 to 113 degrees)

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JAPAN

• Four main islands
• Hokkaido
• Honshu (largest)
• Shikoku
• Kyushu

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TECTONIC PLATES

• Create mountains
• Cause earthquakes
• Many volcanoes
• Mt. Fuji
• Tallest mountain in Japan
• Active volcano

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VOCABULARY

• Ring of Fire
• An area of volcanic activity along the borders of
  the Pacific Ocean
• Typhoon
• A hurricane that occurs in the western Pacific
  Ocean

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NORTH KOREA

• GEOGRAPHY
• Mountains
• Valleys
• RIVERS
• Yalu River
• Tumen River

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SOUTH KOREA

• GEOGRAPHY
• Mountains
• Coastal plains
• River valleys
• RIVERS
• Han River
• Kum River
• Naktong River

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AUSTRALIA

• Smallest continent
• Outback
• The vast, flat plain that extends across most of
  central Australia
• Flattest continent
• DryDeserts cover one third of country
• Great Barrier Reef
• Worlds largest coral reef system

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PACIFIC ISLANDS

• NEW ZEALAND
• Large islands about 1,000 miles east of Australia
• PACIFIC ISLANDS
• 20,000 islands of Oceania
• Three types
• Continental islands
• Part of Earths crust
• High oceanic islands
• Formed by volcanic activity
• Low oceanic islands
• Formed from coral reefs