Table of Contents
- 1 What is the river that rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows southeast to the South China Sea group of answer choices?
- 2 What is the desert that extends through southeast Mongolia and north China?
- 3 What is the highest plateau in the world?
- 4 Which is the largest river of Asia?
- 5 How much of the Gobi Desert is in China?
- 6 What are 3 types of plateaus?
- 7 Where does the Yangtse River begin and end?
- 8 Which is the last free flowing river in Asia?
What is the river that rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows southeast to the South China Sea group of answer choices?
The Mekong River
The Mekong River drains more than 313,000 square miles (810,000 square km) of land, stretching from the Plateau of Tibet to the South China Sea. Among Asian rivers, only the Yangtze and Ganges have larger minimum flows. Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam.
What river runs across the farmlands of northeastern China?
The river that begins in the plateau of Tibet and runs across the farmlands of northeastern China is the Yellow River or the Huang He.
What is the desert that extends through southeast Mongolia and north China?
Introduction. The Gobi Desert basin lies across southern Mongolia and northwestern China between the Mongolian Altai and Khangai mountains and the Himalayan Plateau (see map in Fig. 1). This region is a cold desert with a continental climate and long, cold winters.
What mountain range lies between the Taklamakan Desert and the Plateau of Tibet?
Himalayan range
| Tibetan Plateau | |
|---|---|
| 青藏高原 (Qīng–Zàng Gāoyuán, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau) | |
| The Tibetan Plateau lies between the Himalayan range to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. (Composite image) | |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 2,500 km (1,600 mi) |
What is the highest plateau in the world?
Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
It towers over southwestern China at an average elevation of 4000 m above sea level and is known as “the roof of the world.” Covering more than 2.5 million km(2), the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau is the highest and largest plateau in the world.
Is Tibet the highest country in the world?
Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft). Located in the Himalayas, the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth’s highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level….
| Tibet | |
|---|---|
| Chinese | 西藏 |
| Literal meaning | “Western Tsang” |
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Which is the largest river of Asia?
Yangtze River
Yangtze River, Chinese (Pinyin) Chang Jiang or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’ang Chiang, longest river in both China and Asia and third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 km).
Is Beijing on the Yellow River?
The Beijing-Lanzhou “north route” follows the Yellow River for half of its way. The train from Beijing to Tibet via Qinghai passes through several of the cities along the river. There are also boats along some parts of the river.
How much of the Gobi Desert is in China?
The Gobi Desert blankets nearly 500,000 miles of northern China and southern Mongolia in dry, arid land.
Which plateau is rich in black soil?
Deccan plateau
Because Deccan plateau has a sleeping volcano so soil present there is formed by the erosion of that volcanic rock. Therefore, Deccan plateau has black soil.
What are 3 types of plateaus?
Types of Plateaus.
What is the name of the river that flows through Tibet?
Lancang River, also known as Mekong River is the soul of Southeast Asia. Head watering from the Qinghai province of Tibet it flows through Yunnan Province in China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Where does the Yangtse River begin and end?
Another river rising in the high Tanggula Mountains of northern Tibet, the Yangtse flows for 6,300 kilometers across China to the eastern coast near Shanghai. Starting at an altitude of around 5,000 meters, this massive Asian river descends from the Tibetan Plateau to flow across China’s lowland regions before exiting in the East China Sea.
Where does the Lhasa River start and end?
It stretches for about 2, 900km. It originates from the Angsi glacier in Western Tibet and runs through to Eastern Tibet. Four major tributaries within Tibet are Lhasa River, Nyang River, Raka Tsangpo River, and Parlung River.
Which is the last free flowing river in Asia?
Crossing Tibet and southwest China, it flows into Myanmar and forms part of the border with Thailand before finally emptying out into the Andaman Sea. It remains to this day the last major free-flowing river in Asia.