China, pt1
China, pt 2
Japan, pt 1
Japan, pt 2
Miscellaneous
100
Most people in China do this for a living
What is agriculture (farming)?
100
The Chinese government encourages this belief in regards to religion
What is atheism?
100
This modernization effort in Japan in the late 19th century changed Japan from a feudal society
What is the Meiji Restoration?
100
A group of islands like Japan are called this term
What is an archipelago (which includes Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu)?
100
East Asia countries have these kinds of governments and economies
What are democratic and communist governments, and market and command (government run) economies
200
This is the longest river in China and Asia
What is the Chang Jiang or Yangtze River?
200
This ancient Buddhist kingdom has been claimed by the Chinese government since 1950
What is Tibet?
200
Japan is criticized world wide for hunting these animals at sea
What are whales?
200
This is Japan's largest mountain, actually a dormant volcano that has not erupted for 300 years
What is Mt. Fuji?
200
These are seasonal winds that have a great effect on climate; in the summer they blow from south to north; in the winter from north to south
What are monsoons?
300
This was a failed effort by the Communist Chinese government in the 1950s to replace small farms with large government farms
What is The Great Leap Forward?
300
These mountains forms a natural barrier between Mongolia and China
What is the Altay Shan?
300
This city is the most populous urban area in the world and may eventually be adversely affected by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima
What is Tokyo?
300
Japan and other East Asia nations are located in this region where frequent earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes are a constant threat
What is The Ring of Fire?
300
Despite the safety risks many East Asian countries rely on this technology for energy
What are nuclear power plants?
400
This ethnic group in China makes up more than 90% of the population
What is the Han Chinese?
400
This policy by China has attempted to limit population growth
What is the One Child Policy?
400
This religion is specific to Japan and focuses on the worship of nature
What is Shintoism?
400
This ocean current warms the Japanese coast during the winter months
What is the Japan Current?
400
This nation is origin of East Asia's culture hearth
What is China?
500
This coastal city in China is a global center of trade and commerce and was once controlled by the British
What is Hong Kong?
500
This river is made yellow by the loess (topsoil from the west) it carries and is sometimes called the River of Sorrows
What is Huang He (Yellow River)?
500
Most Japanese belong to one ethnic group and this makes Japan this kind of nation or culture
What is a homogenous nation or culture?
500
These are two island countries in East Asia
What is Taiwan and Japan?
500
These types of storms cause much damage and death in Asia, including recently in the Philippines
What are typhoons?
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