Vocabulary
noun; the average weather conditions in a particular place.
What is climate?
noun; a part or section of a country
What is a region?
An area used by invaders in ancient times to travel from Outer China to Inner China.
What is the Northeastern Plain?
Comes from the Gobi Desert and is carried by the wind to the North China Plain.
What is yellow limestone silt?
The Chinese name for the Yellow River.
What is "Huang He?"
noun; the differences between people or things, when they are compared.
What is contrast?
noun; places, usually in a desert, where water can be found
What are oases?
Located in the North Eastern Plain. A shallow river, only navigable by small boats.
What is the Liao River?
A deep river that can carry larger boats. In the winter when it freezes people use this river as a road.
What is the Sungari River?
Translated to “Long River,” people use this river to transport goods between eastern and western areas of the region.
What is the Chang Jiang?
verb; to exchange or share thoughts, feelings, or information with people, using words, writings, or other methods
What is communicated?
verb; when a liquid such as water, turns into a vapor, or gas
What is evaporate?
An area of 105,000 square miles that is considered one of the most dangerous deserts in the world. Its name means “once you go in, you will not come out.” Desert winds cause huge sand dunes to shift and change, creating sandstorms that move at a stunning speed.
What is the Taklimakan Desert?
An area of 500,000 square miles. It is one of the world's largest deserts. It covers part of China and present-day Mongolia. It has very few sand dunes and is instead is mostly stony. Its surface is made up of small pebbles and tiny bits of sand. Plants here tend to be small and widely spaced apart.
What is the Gobi Desert?
An area that is warm and wet. In ancient times, the vegetation may have been thick rainforest. Not a lot of space for farming or grazing animals, but a good place to grow rice which needs a lot of warmth and moisture.
What are the Chang Jiang Basins?
verb; to improve the quality of something
What is enrich?
verb; to set apart from other people or things
What is isolated?
A region that is a bitterly cold place to live. There are only about fifty days a year without frost. Snowstorms are common, even in July.
What is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau?
This area includes two regions in the southeastern part of modern China: the North China Plain and the Chang Jiang Basins.
What is Inner China?
1600 C.E.
When did Inner and Outer China become one country?
proper noun; a region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began
What is the North China Plain?
noun; light, fertile soil that yields bountiful grain crops.
What are loess?
This area includes three regions in the western and northern parts of modern China: the Tibet-Qinghai, or Tibetan, Plateau; the Northwestern Deserts (the Taklimakan and the Gobi); and the Northeastern Plain.
What is Outer China?
A location that is 505 feet below sea level. The second-lowest place in China. It can grow so hot here that raindrops evaporate before even reaching the ground.
What is the Turfan Depression?
The harsh geography and huge distances made communication and transportation difficult, and interfered with the movement of military forces.
What makes China hard to govern?