Life and Culture
The process of turning an area of land into a city
What is urbanization?
When a country imports more goods than it sells to another country
What is a trade deficit?
The term to describe a country that is not legally recognized by other countries
What is a de facto country?
An an area of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
The capital of Japan
What is Tokyo?
A popular music genre that originated in South Korea that is enjoyed by people in East Asia and all around the world
What is "K-Pop"?
A system where the government controls economic goods and services
The buffer zone that acts as a border between North Korea and South Korea
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
A huge wave triggered by earthquakes that gets higher as a it approaches the coast
What is a tsunami?
The capital of China
What is Beijing?
This law, enacted in 1979, attempted to address overpopulation concerns in China
What is the "one-child policy"?
A system where private companies control the production of goods and services and compete with one another in order to establish prices
What is capitalism/a market economy?
A period of Chinese history where intellectuals and students were ordered to work on farms in order to get rid of any cultural elements that did not support communism
What was the Cultural Revolution?
A group or chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
The capital of South Korea
What is Seoul?
The largest city in China
What is Shanghai?
An area of a country where a single foreign power has been granted exclusive trading rights
What is a sphere of influence?
This country occupied all of Korea before Korea was split into two nations after World War II
What is Japan?
Japan's largest mountain
What is Mt. Fuji?
The capital of North Korea
What is Pyongyang?
The official language of Taiwan.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
When a country exports more products than it imports from another country
What is a trade surplus?
The leader of the Communist movement in China after the fall of Qing dynasty
Who is Mao Zedong?
An area on Earth that nearly encircles the Pacific Ocean where huge sections of Earth's crust grind against each other and cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
What is the Ring of Fire?
The capital of Taiwan
What is Taipei City?