Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Questions 1
Questions 2
Questions 3
100
A raised area of level land bordered on one or more sides by steep slopes or cliffs
What is a plateau?
100
To grow two or more crops on the same land in the same season or at the same time.
What is double-cropping?
100
Chang and Huang
What are two major rivers in China?
100
The percentage of Japan that has mountains.
What is 80%.
100
A summer monsoon in East Asia brings _______________ and blows winds from the _________________.
What is rainfall and northwest?
200
The average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer.
What is population density?
200
Another word for fish-farming.
What is aquaculture?
200
Japan and South Korea make up for their lack of mineral resources by _________.
What is import?
200
Water affects the climate of the Koreas and Japan by causing their summers to be ____________ and winters to be ______________.
What are cooler summers and warmer winters?
200
These two parts of East Asia have very high population.
What are plateaus and coastal plains?
300
A wind that changes directions with the change of seasons.
What is a monsoon?
300
A tropical storm that develops over the Pacific Ocean, with winds that reach speeds greater than 74 miles per hour.
What is a typhoon?
300
Farmers in East Asia make the best use of their land for farming with _________________ and ________________.
What is terrace farming and double cropping?
300
Most of the population in China live in the Eastern half of the country because of its ____________________.
What is fertile soil?
300
A developed country in Asia.
What is South Korea?
400
A brownish-yellowish soil that is very fertile.
What is loess?
400
Falling off or shedding, as in leaves, seasonally or at a certain stage of development.
What is deciduous?
400
A country with many industries and a well-developed economy. (term)
What is a developed country?
400
A country with low industrial production and little modern technology. (term)
What is a developing country?
400
A developing country in Asia.
What is North Korea?
500
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
500
Electricity produced by using the power of flowing water.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
Japan is a(n) _______________ and the Koreas are a(n) _____________________.
What are an archipelago and peninsula?
500
Name the 3 things that affect the climate in Asia.
What are what people grow, how they can plant, and how easily they can harvest their fields?
500
Name the three basic questions countries ask when planning their economies.
What are: What will be produced? How will it be produced? For whom will it be produced?
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