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Locate this country and bound it. Name the

projections on its coast. Describe its surface. gable rivers.

Tell what you can of its climate. Name its various products and locate them as far as possible. Name and locate its capital and tell anything you can about it. Name its principal seaports. Tell for what any of them are noted.

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poor, although Brazil has many navi Railroads are slowly developing. Lines of steamers run up the Amazon to the boundary of Peru, a distance of two thousand miles. These steamers carry supplies to the settlers and bring back the various products of the tropical forests.

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is Kamchatka nearly surrounded? By what the Corean Peninsula? What island empire lies east of this coast? What waters surround it? What island group lies southeast of this coast? Trace the southern coast and name the coast forms as you trace.

What island lies southeast of India? Trace the western coast and land boundary. What waters border on the Peninsula of Indo-China? What on the Peninsula of India? What on the Peninsula of Arabia? What on the Peninsula of Asia-Minor? Name the most northern, eastern, and southern capes of Asia.

Trace the rivers which flow down the northern slope. Name and describe the three largest.

Trace the rivers which flow down the eastern and southern slopes. Name and describe the course of three on the eastern slope and of three on the southern slope. On the relief map trace the great water-parting of Asia from East Cape to the Pamir Plateau. What mountain ranges on the northern boundary of this great mountain mass? Trace the highlands from the Pamir to the Mediterranean.

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What three mountain ranges form this mass? Trace the highlands from the Pamir to the highlands of Africa. Note that they nearly close the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Find Thibet,

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teau in the world; also find the Central Basin and Mongolian Plateau. Trace the Himalaya Mountains, which bound Thibet on the

south. Trace other mountain ranges which

radiate eastward from the Pamir. What range bounds the Mongolian Plateau on the east? What desert on the Mongolian Plateau? Locate the Plateau of Deccan. What great river basins lie between this plateau and the Himalayas? Locate the plateaus of Iran, Arabia, Asia Minor.

Locate the great northern plain. Name it and tell how it is divided. Locate the Aral Sea; also Lakes Balkash and Baikal. Locate the Plains of Mongolia, which lie in the lower part of the Amur River Basin; also locate the Plains of China which lie in the lower parts of the Hoang and Yangtse river basins.

In what belts of climate does Asia lie? Com

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pare the climate of the southern part with that of the northern part? How does the

central Asia. The Pamir Plateau, the "Roof of the World," is sixteen thousand feet above sealevel, with many peaks rising much higher. From this plateau the mountains stretch eastward to inclose great plateaus and descend to the coastal plain. Mountain chains extend westward from the Pamir to inclose the lower plateaus, and grad

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great mountain mass affect the climate of the northern plain? What effect has it on the southern peninsulas? What sections are open to the cold north winds? What to the cool northeast winds? What to the warm south winds? The greatest rainfall is on the eastern coastal plains; why? What kind of a climate would you expect to find on the high plateaus?

Trace the sections in the product map and make a list of the products in each. What are the important animal products? The mineralproducts?

Asia contains some of the highest, dreariest, and most barren land in the world. It also contains vast tracts of lowland,

some of it being the coldest, most bleak, scend and barren of any lowland in the world. The world ridge reaches its highest elevation in the great highland mass of

to the Mediterranean and to the highlands of Africa.

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