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    Natural Resources: Lesson 3

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    The document summarizes the natural resources of various regions in Asia. It describes the key crops, minerals, and animals in countries in North Asia (gold, cotton, livestock), East Asia (rice, wheat, seafood, water buffalo in China), West Asia (oil, natural gas, fruits, dates in Saudi Arabia and Iran), South Asia (spices, tea, rubber in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh), and Southeast Asia (forests, oil, gas, abaca in Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia). The document provides an overview of the agricultural and mining resources across the Asian continent.

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    The document summarizes the natural resources of various regions in Asia. It describes the key crops, minerals, and animals in countries in North Asia (gold, cotton, livestock), East Asia (rice, wheat, seafood, water buffalo in China), West Asia (oil, natural gas, fruits, dates in Saudi Arabia and Iran), South Asia (spices, tea, rubber in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh), and Southeast Asia (forests, oil, gas, abaca in Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia). The document provides an overview of the agricultural and mining resources across the Asian continent.

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    Natural Resources

    Lesson 3
    North Asia

     Farming: near river valleys and low hills


     Rice, wheat, cotton, vegetables, tobacco,
    sugar beets, onions, grapes, apples
     Mountainous areas: main livelihood
     Raising livestock (cows, sheep)
     Livestock: milk, wool, meat
    North Asia
    COUNTRIES RESOURCES

    Kyrgyzstan
    • gold: one of the largest in the world

    Uzbekistan
    • gold
    • world’s leading cotton seed exporter

    Tajikistan
    • gold, silver, copper
    • Industrial minerals: phosphate

    Turkmenistan
    • 2nd to Russia in the production of natural
    gas
    • oil and natural are principal industries
    East Asia

     Rich mineral deposits


    (except Japan)
     Crop
    - rice is the most important
    crop
    - wheat the 2nd most important
    - beets, cabbage, potatoes
    - fruits: grapes, pears, peaches
     Animals
    - water buffalo, donkey, horse
    East Asia
    COUNTRY RESOURCES

    China
    • Holds the largest reserves in antimony,
    magnesium, and tungsten in the world
    • 7% of the world’s arable land in China
    • shores: seafood, cod, prawn, crab, etc.
    • leading rice producer
    • Kaoling: animal food and beverage
    • water buffalo, donkey

    Japan
    • few resources
    • industrialized

    Mongolia
    • cows, sheep, horses, goats, camels
    West Asia

     Mineral Resources: oil, petroleum, natural


    gas

    Iran: second highest natural gas reserve;


    10% of the world’s petroleum reserve

    Saudi Arabia:tops the list in terms


    of petroleum production
    West Asia

     Arable land
    - crops: tomatoes, onions, wheat
    - fruits: grapes, dates, melons, cherries,
    plums
     Animal Grazing
    West Asia

    COUNTRIES RESOURCES

    Iran
    • 2nd highest natural gas reserve
    • 10% of the world’s oil reserve
    • 8% arable and utilized

    Lebanon
    • cedar

    Israel
    • 20% of land is devoted to farming

    Saudi Arabia
    • oases: cultivated lands
    • Plums, dates
    South Asia

     Spices, crops  India, Ganges Plain


     Forests  Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
     Mangrove forests  along the coasts
     Animals  Karakul sheep, cows, etc.
    South Asia

    CLOCANTTIROYN RREESSOURRCCEE

    ••5c4o%wland is arable: Indo-Gangetic Plain


    IBnadnai gladesh

    SNrei pLal ka
    ••d2e7n%seofotoe r tsatlsarea is forest
    ••moiasl heoegda,ntyo,bpaaclcmoera, betel,
    coconut
    • 30% of land is cultivated: agriculture
    • tea, rubber, coconut

    PMaaklidstiavens •tourneasts
    • 30% of land is cultivated: agriculture

    AInfdgha
    i annOsticaena • illegal opium cultivation
    •
    sardines, anchovies
    • Karakul
    n sheep
    shrimp
    Southeast Asia

     Forest
     Major part of the land of Myanmar and Brunei
     Philippines
     Water bodies
     Biodiversity
     various animals, reptiles, birds
    Southeast Asia
    COUNTRY RESOURCES

    Philippines
    • full of forests: mangrove, narra, etc.
    • thousands of fauna and flora (tamaraw,
    tarsier, pilandok, etc)
    • abaca, coconut oil, coffee, soybeans,
    peanuts
    • copper

    Myanmar
    • largest number of teak trees in the world
    • Rubber, bamboo, acacia

    Indonesia
    • oil
    • Natural gas
    • 35% of the world’s liquefied gas

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