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
What is the reward for living with dangerous volcanoes?
What is the most fertile lands.
200
People of the _______ depends 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 ________.
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
What is the Yangtze known as?
What is "China's main street"
300
In China modern involved into a type known as ______?
(p 37)
What is Mongoloid?
300
The Asian Volcanoes are part of the great _____________, which rim the pacific ocean.
What is the arc of fire.
400
In ancient Chinese pharmacology, one of the most potent substances was ______ _______.
What is Dragon Bones
400
What is the name of the highest mountain bordering China and Nepal.
What is Mount Everest.
(p. 15)
500
In China modern involved into a type known as ______?
(p 37)
What is Mongoloid?
500
What gave China most of it's geographic features.
What is Plate Tectonics.