1. East
Asia

2. Where is East ASIA??

3. Check your map of East Asia

4. Countries of East Asia:
China
North Korea
Japan
Mongolia
South Korea
Taiwan

5. Major Physical Features:
Kunlun Mountains
Gobi Desert
Tibetan Plateau
“Ring of Fire”

6. KUNLUN MOUNTAINS

7. GOBI DESERT

8. TIBETAN PLATEAU “Roof of the World” Average Elevation - 16,400 ft
World’s highest and biggest
plateau
TIBETAN PLATEAU
“Roof of the World”

9. RING OF FIRE

10. RIVERS YANGTZE RIVER(CHANG JIANG) ASIA’S LONGEST RIVER
CHANG JIANG MEANS
“LONG RIVER”
MAJOR TRADE ROUTE

11. Three Gorges Dam

12. world’s largest hydro-electric power station
completed October 2008
construction cost – 39 billion dollars

13. YELLOW RIVER(HUANG HE)
KNOWN AS
“CHINA’S SORROW”
FLOODS FREQUENTLY

14. Where does the Yellow River
Huang He
“Yellow River”
Where does the Yellow River
get its name?
Named for the silt carried
downstream in its flow.
This silt is known as …
Loess

15. ISLAND COUNTRIES
JAPAN
TAIWAN

16. CLIMATE REGIONS SUBARCTIC HIGHLAND HUMID CONTINENTAL HUMID SUBTROPICAL
SEMIARID
DESERT
TROPICAL WET

17. NATURAL HAZARDS TYPHOONS – A TROPICAL STORM LIKE A
HURRICANE THAT OCCURS IN THE WESTERN
PACIFIC

18. VOLCANOES
MOUNT FUJI – JAPAN

19. EARTHQUAKES
DUE TO BEING PART OF
THE RING OF FIRE

20. IMAGES OF KOBE EARTHQUAKE,
JANUARY 1995

23. Tsunami – a huge wave of great
destructive power

24. History: Dynasties in China and Japan Communism in China – Mao Zedong
Dynasty – series of rulers from the
same family

25. CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
Religious Diversity:
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
Taoism
Shinto
Confucianism

26. Cultural Landscape
Great Wall of China

27. Pagodas

28. Temples

29. Next is South East Asia!