Mental Map- Phys. Features
Desert located on the border between China and Nepal.
What is the Gobi Desert?
Single island country located off the east coast of China.
What is Taiwan?
Mount Everest is located between these two countries.
What are China and Nepal?
What is famine?
Japan consists of this many major islands.
What is four?
Name 4 countries the Himalayas are located in.
What are China, Nepal, Bhutan, India or Pakistan?
In the 1960's and 1970's the U.S. fought a war in this country that borders the South China Sea.
What is Vietnam?
Height of Mount Everest (within 1,000 feet).
What is 29,035 feet above sea level?
Ruled China from 1949-1976 with policies such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
A measure of how crowded an area is.
What is population density?
Flat, elevated land that makes up much of western China.
What is the Plateau of Tibet?
Name 3 archipelago countries in Monsoon Asia.
What are Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines?
The harmful effects of extreme cold, wind or other weather condition.
What is exposure?
A statistic that reveals the speed at which a population is growing.
What is rate of natural increase?
Total population divided by total arable land.
What is physiologic population density?
What is the sea of Japan?
Name 3 landlocked countries in Monsoon Asia.
What are Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia or Laos?
A place of great cultural or natural value as designated by UNESCO.
What is a World Heritage Site?
3 benefits of the Three Gorges Dam.
What are clean energy, flood control and improved shipping?
What is Shinkansen?
Large body of water that forms most of India's eastern coastline.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
This country forms Thailand's entire wester border?
What is Myanmar/Burma?
The Nepalese name for Mount Everest.
What is Sagarmatha?
The term for a man-made lake, usually formed when a dam is built across a river.
What is a reservoir?
Term for how people are spread out in a given area.
What is population distribution?