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2 ASIA

LESSON 6

6 Fill in the blanks using the following words.

Caucasus Arctic rubber Indian oil Gobi Baikal

black sand natural gas tin

1. Asia is bordered by the Ocean to the north and the
Ocean to the south.

2. The lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

3. is the second largest desert in Asia.

4. Lake is the oldest freshwater lake in the world.
5. The Arabian Peninsula has the world’s largest deposits of and

.
6. Karakum means .

7. Malaysia traded and .

7 Imagine you are going to Asia. What are the physical features that you
would want to see? Why? What do you think the climate would be like?

8 What would have happened if Asia had had no deserts at all?

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