Rivers
This river gets its color from the sand in the Gobi Desert
What is the Yellow River
This is the most fertile region in all of China
What is The North China Plain?
China was isolated from their neighbors because of this
What are China's Extreme Geographical features?
Neighbor to the South!
What is India?
Built to protect China from invasions in the North
What is the Great Wall?
What is the Pearl River?
Poisonous snakes are found here
what is the Taklamakan Desert
This River Valley has a long, rainy, & warm summer which makes a great growing season
What is the Yangtze River Valley?
Neighbor that frequently invaded from the North!
Who are the Mongols?
Built to keep the Yangtze River from flooding; built as recently as 2012.
What is the 3 Gorges Dam?
Caused famines & killed millions of people
What is the Flooding of the Yellow River?
Moderate Desert
What is the Gobi Desert?
River is known as "China's Sorrow"
Taklamakan Desert kept these neighbors from invading
Who are the Persians?
Yellow river supplies power to China through...
What is a hydroelectric power plant?
This river was located in the sub-tropics (Southern China)
What is the Pearl River?
Elevation 14,800-16,000 feet above Sea Level
what is the Tibetan Plateau?
Where majority of the Chinese population is located
Himalayas were shared by this neighbor
Who is India?
Chinese nomads used animals here for food & clothing
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
River is also known as the Long River
What is the Yangtze River?
This is a region of China that was incredibly easy to navigate from the Sea, because of the amount of rivers that led inland. China didn't actually own this land until 1946 AD.
Cradle of Chinese Civilization
Leader was Genghis Khan
Who are the Mongols?
Type of farming found often in the North China Plain; how they grow rice