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.
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Xian
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Beijing
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Shanghai
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Hangzhou
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Hong Kong
HINT: Terra-Cotta Warriors located there.
(p 13)
What is Xian
200
The natural habitat for rice.
What is Monsoon Asia.
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.