why Asia is called the continent of extreme climate?
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we have the hottest country, dryest country, most moist country, coldest country in asia..that's why it's like a fusion\nall type of climate in one continent...we have country that have seasons and we have country that does not have seasons..for example japan has four seasons, but singapore does not have seasons
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no... because i know, before my class even started the topic of year 9 geology (i think the topic is called "Reading the Earth") - and i'm in year 9, i think this is form two for other countries and can be also known as grade 9), i know that the mountain ranges in the asian area was cause by plate tectonics crashing into each other - and through the topic i'm studying right now, I learnt that the type of boundary that is between the plates is called the collosion boundary where two plates of similar thickness collide creating mountain ranges as the ground is pushed upwards and downwards.
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UMMMMMMMMMM......... ASIA................. D'UH!!!!!!!!!!
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Pangaea is the name of the original super-continent.\n\nPlate tectonics describes how the continents move.\n\nRead here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
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All people who are from Asia are calld Asian.People from India are also considered Asians.
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Air is heated & rises at the equator. The air is forced to about 30 degrees north & south of the equator at high altitude. It starts to cool at these latitudes and starts to descend. As it descends it is heated due to decreasing antitude and increasing atmospheric pressure. This causes the moisture content in the air to decrease resurlting in typically cloudless skies and little rain. This is called a 'Hadley Cell'.\n\nThese latitudes were called the horse latitudes becuase in the days of sailing ships which were often becalmed in these latitudes, sailors were forced to kill livestock on board ships to conserve water and provide food.
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considering the age of the earth the odds would favor it. as well as a day when it was completely cloudy. although the continent of north america was once attached to europe but moved with shift of the tectonic plates
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Asia is huge - rather than a superficial overlook of the entire country, most credible geographers focus on one country or regional area at a time.\n\nThere is much about Asia in the about.com web about geography [citation below].\n\nGo to    http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blasia.htm for an index into the site.\n\ngood luck to you
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a climate similar to those found on and around the equator.
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Climate in India\n\nThe Himalayas isolate South Asia from the rest of Asia. South of these mountains, the climate, like the terrain, is highly diverse, but some geographers give it an overall, one-word characterization--violent. What geographers have in mind is the abruptness of change and the intensity of effect when change occurs--the onset of the monsoon rains, sudden flooding, rapid erosion, extremes of temperature, tropical storms, and unpredictable fluctuations in rainfall. Broadly speaking, agriculture in India is constantly challenged by weather uncertainty.\n\nIndian seasons : It is possible to identify seasons, although these do not occur uniformly throughout South Asia. The Indian Meteorological Service divides the year into four seasons: the relatively dry, cool winter from December through February; the dry, hot summer from March through May; the southwest monsoon from June through September when the predominating southwest maritime winds bring rains to most of the country; and the northeast, or retreating, monsoon of October and November.\n\nThe southwest monsoon blows in from sea to land. The southwest monsoon usually breaks on the west coast early in June and reaches most of South Asia by the first week in July (see fig. 6). Because of the critical importance of monsoon rainfall to agricultural production, predictions of the monsoon's arrival date are eagerly watched by government planners and agronomists who need to determine the optimal dates for plantings.\n\nTheories about why monsoons occur vary. Conventionally, scientists have attributed monsoons to thermal changes in the Asian landmass. Contemporary theory cites other factors--the barrier of the Himalayas and the sun's northward tilt (which shifts the jet stream north). The hot air that rises over South Asia during April and May creates low-pressure areas into which the cooler, moisture-bearing winds from the Indian Ocean flow.These circumstances set off a rush of moisture-rich air from the southern seas over South Asia.\n\nThe southwest monsoon occurs in two branches. After breaking on the southern part of the Peninsula in early June, the branch known as the Arabian Sea monsoon reaches Bombay around June 10, and it has settled over most of South Asia by late June, bringing cooler but more humid weather. The other branch, known as the Bay of Bengal monsoon, moves northward in the Bay of Bengal and spreads over most of Assam by the first week of June. On encountering the barrier of the Great Himalayan Range, it is deflected westward along the Indo-Gangetic Plain toward New Delhi. Thereafter the two branches merge as a single current bringing rains to the remaining parts of North India in July.\n\nClimate India - The withdrawal of the monsoon is a far more gradual process than its onset. It usually withdraws from northwest India by the beginning of October and from the remaining parts of the country by the end of November. During this period, the northeast winds contribute to the formation of the northeast monsoon over the southern half of the Peninsula in October. It is also known as the retreating monsoon because it follows in the wake of the southwest monsoon. The states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala receive most of their rainfall from the northeast monsoon during November and December. However, 80 percent of the country receives most of its rainfall from the southwest monsoon from June to September.\n\nSouth Asia is subject to a wide range of climates--from the subfreezing Himalayan winters to the tropical climate of the Coromandel Coast and from the damp, rainy climate in the states of Assam and West Bengal to the arid Great Indian Desert. Based on precipitation and temperature, experts define seven climatic regions: the Himalayas, Assam and West Bengal, the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Western Ghats and coast, the Deccan (the interior of the Peninsula south of the Narmada River), and the Eastern Ghats and coast (see fig. 7).\n\nIn the Hima
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Typhoons occur in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean; Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean.
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I'm not sure there's a correlation between polar regions an altitude, but there's a strong connection between altitude and climate. In a nutshell, higher altitudes have the affect of moving further north (colder) climate. In the polar region this same effect applies, but is less pronounced since there are fewer climate spans.\n\nAlso, I suspect being near glaciers, water masses, etc. need to be considered for micro-climates.
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The terms "hurricane" and "typhoon" are regionally specific names for a strong "tropical cyclone". A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical or sub-tropical waters with organized convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). \n\nTropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-)). Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name. If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called: \n\n"hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E) \n"typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline) \n"severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E) \n"severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean) \n"tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)
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The storms comparable to hurricanes that originate in the Pacific ocean are called typhoons.  \n\nI am sorry to say that it looks like Japan might have another very severe typhoon season this year.  In one very recent year they had far more than normal.\n\nOn rare occasions hurricanes can cross from the Carribean into the Pacific and regain strength becoming typhoons and vice versa.\n\nI believe they are called typhoons also when they hit China and the Philippines.\n\nFor Australia and India they are called cyclones, and that is also the generic name for all three.\n\nTyphoons can be the most spectacularly strong of all cyclones, and certainly hold the record for size.  Not difficult to understand when you consider the size of the Pacific Ocean and the fact that it is subject to heating as are the Atlantic and the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico.\n\nYou can monitor the potential for these by using the AVISO urls (sea level anomalies) found at my weather blog:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nThere is comprehensive weather info there if you take the time to delve into the blog and the Blog Roll.
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First of all, Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia.  Second, there are a bunch of major fault lines crossing Indonesia - this basically means that big chunks of the Earth's crust are moving around and hitting one another.  This has various effects, and one of them is to create mountains.  The Earth has layers to it, and when the top layers move enough, magma, which is called lava when it reaches the surface, comes up from a deeper layer.  The magma and the mountains make volcanoes, and since Indonesia has a lot of the right factors to create volcanoes, it has a lot of them.
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Asia is a continent, comprised of many countries. Some of those are in the U.N. and others aren't.
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Asia\nAfrica\nNorth America\nSouth America\nAntarctica\nEurope\nAustralia.