Landforms+JY

 **Hindu Kush** -mountains (over 22,000 ft) -a natural border between Afghanistan and Pakistan -snow-capped peaks

  **KARA KUM DESERT** -desert of south-central Turkmenistan - about 115,000 sq.miles   **PAMIR** -mountains -stretch across much of Tajikistan and parts of Afghanistan, China and Pakistan -over 22,000ft

 **SYRIAN DESERT** -desert - 200,000 sq, miles - parts of Jordan, Syria, Soudi Arabia, western Iraq - very little rain falls - arid wasteland - Arab nomads -raise cattle and camels -oil piplines   **TAURUS MOUNTAINS** ==== -across southern Turkey to its borders with Iraq and Iran ==== ====- <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;">16,583 ft. high  ==== <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;">- mountain <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;">

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> **TIEN SHAN (//also Tian//)** -1,500 miles across Kyrgyzstan and well into China, -19,000 ft -mountain <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> **ZAGROS MOUNTAINS** -along southern and western Iran and into northern Iraq. -9,000 ft

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> **ATLAS MOUNTAINS** <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> - mountain -southwestern Morocco along the Mediterranean coastline to the eastern edge of Tunisia <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> **GREAT RIFT VALLEY** - depression on the earth's surface, 4,000 miles in length, - from the Red Sea area near Jordan in the Middle East, south to the African country of Mozambique.

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;"> **NILE RIVER SYSTEM** - the longest river in the world (flows north), -rising from the highlands of southeastern Africa and running - 4,160 miles (6,693 km) in length, to then drain in the Mediterranean Sea.