Physical Geography of China
Which Ocean is the biggest ocean of China? And how long is the coastline?
South China sea（南海）, and the coastline is more than 5800 kilometers.
What is the biggest province in China?
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
What are the names of the “OREO” easy structure components in order?
Answer: 1.Opinion 2.reason 3.example 4.Reason 5.example 6.Opinion restated.
Name a body of water that borders China to the east.
Answer: Pacific Ocean
To have a more complete writing structure, you should contain opinions, reasons and ________ in your essay.
A. definitions B. examples C. facts
B---- OREO structure: opinion, reason, example, opinion
What is the name of the highest mountain in China? Your answer should be both in English and Chinese.
Everest/珠穆朗玛峰
How many ethnic minority groups in China?
55.
Why should we restate our opinion again at the end of the essay?
Answer: In order to remind your readers of what you have tried to prove in your essay.
Which of the following countries does NOT border China?
Japan Mongolia Russia North Korea
Answer: Japan
“When the ocean is extremely polluted, coral reefs die.”
This sentence is an example of _______.
A. Spatial pattern B. Reason Explanation C. Cause and Effect
C---- polluted ocean: cause, coral reefs die: effect
Please name 3 major plains in China
Manchurian Plain（东北平原）
China North Plain（华北平原）
Middle and Lower Reach of Changjiang River Plain（长江中下游平原）
What are the most popular religions or belief in western China for minorities?
Buddism and Islam
What are cause and effect relationship?
an action or event (which is the cause) produces an outcome or result (which is the effect).
Ancient China was surrounded by desert, mountains and ocean. What impact did these natural borders have on the culture?
Answer: They isolated the Chinese civilization allowing it to develop independently.
A famous geographer found that if you connect Heihe and Tengchong to make a line, this line can divide up China into two halves. In the east of this line there are more than 90% of population and more advanced economy, education, productivity for agricultural etc. What is the name of this geographer?
Hu Huanyong胡焕庸
Name at least 8 major landforms in 20 seconds
Answer: 8 landforms named ex. Mountain, Hill, Ocean, Valley, etc.
What are the historical reasons why China is divided into so many provinces?
China was historically divided into many states. e.g. Hebei (河北) was largely the territory of Yan (燕). People from these states have their unique culture, dialects. Provinces are formed due to the physical and ethnics diversity.
Why do we always put the topic sentence in the beginning of a paragraph?
To hook the audience or give a heads-up to the reader so that our opinions can be delivered in a more efficient way.
Which city has the highest altitude in China?
Shigatse（日喀则）, the average altitude is 3836m.
Yinchuan
Use English to define a contour line map. Please also list 3 characteristics of contour line map.
A contour line map is a map with lines joining points of equal height above or below sea level.
Some characteristics include-contour interval stays the same across the map.
Contour lines never intersect with themselves.
The more steep a slope is, the more together the contour lines are.
etc.
The Influence of Three terrain Steps on Population Distribution in China?
The first step is the highest, affected by the terrain, cold climate with many mountains, blocked traffic, slow economic development, so sparsely populated. The third step is low-lying, close to the sea, warm and humid climate, dense traffic lines, more favorable conditions for economic development, plains of the third step are also suitable for farming and crop growth, so dense population. The second step is in transition.
Why are evidence or examples important in a piece of writing?
Which city in China has the most population?
-Chongqing
Name 4 cities which are directly administrated by central government.
Beijing Shanghai Tianjin Chongqing