What are the most important resources in Central Asia? Explain where in Central Asia these resources are located. Where do most of these resources end up? Make sure to write your response in complete sentences.

Natural resources are one of the most important factors that allow a particular region to develop. In the case of Central Asia, these resources are abundant, but still quite unexplored. For example, the area has roughly 3% of the world's oil, 4% of the world's coal, and 15% of the world's uranium. It also has large reserves of natural gas, zinc, lead, chromite, copper, iron ore, gold and manganese. These are mostly located in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Most of these resources end up in Europe, the US, Russia, China and India. This is mostly due to the fact that the region is sparsely populated.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)