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Identifier: europeotherconti00tarr (find matches)
Title: Europe and other continents
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 McMurray, Frank Morton, 1862- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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^ grade into the desert. Since northern Asiais really a continuation of Europe, the wild plants andanimals, as well as the farm products, resemble those
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HE M.N.CCBUFFALO. TIGER ELEPHANT Fig. 248.Some of the animals of Asia. PLANTS AND ANIMALS 361 of Europe. Name some of the European farm prod-ucts. In southern Asia, on the other hand, from Arabia toChina, the plants and animals resemble those of Africarather than those ofEurope and northernAsia (p. 68). Onereason for this is thatsouthern Asia has atropical climate likeAfrica ; another isthat a mountainand desert barrierseparates northernfrom southern Asia.Trace this barrieron Figure 243. Asin Africa, the aridportion, includingArabia, Persia, andcentral Asia, is the home of the camel (Fig. 248) andostrich (Fig. 300), while the elephant and rhinoceros(Fig. 248) live on the savannas and in the tropical jun-gles. Southern Asia is also the home of the fierce tigerand numerous species of monkeys and apes (Fig. 248). It was in Asia, probably the seat of the oldest civilizationof mankind, that men first learned to make use of some of theanimals and plants that are now so valuable in all parts

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