Physical Features
What is the tallest mountain in East Asia?
Mount Everest.
What is the average climate in the Southeast part of East Asia?
Hot and rainy.
Which country has the largest deposits of fossil fuels in East Asia
China.
How old is Chinese civilization?
Over 4000 years old.
What year did the Korean War end?
1953
What ocean surrounds most of East Asia?
The Pacific Ocean.
How humid is the climate of Mongolia?
Dry.
What fraction of Japan is covered in forests?
Two thirds.
Who invented gunpowder?
The Chinese.
What year did Mao Zedong die?
1976
What four seas sit along the edge of East Asia?
The South China Sea, The East China Sea, The Yellow Sea, and The Sea of Japan.
Which peninsula has milder temperatures than the mainland?
The Korean Peninsula.
What natural resource is most commonly found by the Yellow River?
Coal.
What year did Communists take over China?
1949
What is the capital of Taiwan?
Taipei.
The Plateau of Tibet is North of what mountain range?
The Himalayas.
What is the climate in the Plateau of Tibet in the fall?
Cold and windy.
China is the world's largest producer of what natural resource?
Coal.
What year (B.C) was Confucius born?
550 B.C.
What century did the Mongols invade China and Korea?
1200, or the thirteenth century.
What is the exact elevation of Mt. Everest?
Twenty-nine thousand and thirty-two feet.
What kind of air flows North from the Indian Ocean?
Warm air.
The Taklimakan Desert has what natural resources underneath it?
Oil and Natural Gas.
Who founded Daoism?
Laozi.
What did some East Asian militaries use as a signaling system, and later became a children's toy?
Kites.