Geography
Fun Facts
Rivers, Mountains, and Landforms
Provinces and Cities
Food Cultivation
100
The study of how geography and politics influences a nation.
What is geopolitics.
100
In what year did the country's name change to Republic of China or ROC. 
a) 1949
b) 1776
c) 1279
d) 2005
e) Yesterday
What is 1949.
100
What is the reward for living with dangerous volcanoes?
What is the most fertile lands.
100
Two of the major crops cultivated in China.
What are rice, tea, wheat, potatoes.
200
People of the _______ depend on herding sheep rather than growing wheat for survival due to the dry environment.
What is Gobi Desert? (p16)
200
China got involved in a ruinous civil war that ended only with the victory CCP under Mao and retreat of ________.
HINT: Initials C.K. (Not Lewis)
What is Chiang Kaishek
200
In the western Himalayan "pinch" are the head waters of India's 3 great rivers: Indus, Ganges, ______.
What is Brahmaputra.
200

In 1556, an earthquake near ______ killed 830,000 people. 

a. Xian
b. Beijing
c. Shanghai
d. Hangzhou
e. Hong Kong

HINT: Terra-Cotta Warriors located there.
(p 13)

What is Xian
200
The natural habitat for rice.
What is Monsoon Asia.
300
The _________ river in China is also known as the mother river of China.
What is the yellow river.
300
In China modern humans evolved into a type known as ______, due to a harsh northern climate that put different selective pressures on them as compared to equatorial Asia.
(p 37)
What is Mongoloid?
300

The Asian Volcanoes are part of the great _____________, which rim the pacific ocean.

What is the ring of fire.
300
Taiwan is a province in this country.
What is the Republic of China (ROC)? (Bhasin, slide 10)
300
_______ was the major crop cultivated in China until the Chinese government banned the crop because of its narcotic effects.
Opium
400
China and Japan have been in conflict for the _______________ islands.
Senkaku/Diaoyutai
400

In ancient Chinese pharmacology, one of the most potent substances was ______ _______.

What are Dragon Bones
400

What is the name of the highest mountain bordering China and Nepal

What is Mount Everest. (p. 15)
400

This province in China borders North Korea and is home to approximately one million ethnic Koreans.

What is Jilin Province? (http://www.beijing-visitor.com/china-travel-guides/china-provinces)
400
Paddy (wet-rice) cultivation in China is known as this.
What is the four stoops? p. 31
500

The summit of __________ marks the border between Nepal and China.

What is Mt. Everest
500

What gave China most of it's geographic features.

What is Plate Tectonics.
500
These are the three subspecies to which all Asian rice belong.
p. 27
What are indica, japonica/sinica, and javanica?
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