Geography Terms
Seas
Rivers of East Asia
Natural Resources
East Asia Landforms
100
one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents.
What is an ocean?
100
This body of water lies between China and Japan.
What is the East China Sea?
100
This river picks up a tremendous amount of yellow and brown silt. It empties into the Yellow Sea.
What is the Yellow River?
100
What country holds the greatest share of natural resource's in East Asia?
What is China?
100
This mountain chain forms the border between South Asia and China.  They are the tallest in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
200
Flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.
What is a delta?
200
Largest body of water that borders southern China. It is partially enclosed by Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia.
What is the South China Sea?


200
This river is the third longest in the world. It empties into the East China Sea at Shanghai.
What is is the Yangtze River?
200
China is the largest largest producer of what natural resource?
What is Coal?
200
This is a vast area of land compromising of mountains and uplands.  It is called "the roof of the world."  It is the highest one of these.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
300
Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.
What is a river?
300
This body of water that separates Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula.
What is the Yellow Sea?
300
This river forms the border of China and North Korea?
What is the Amnok(Yalu) River?
300
China is a world leader in mining what natural resources. 
What are tin, lead, zinc, iron ore, and tungsten?
300
The tallest mountain in the world.  It is on the border of Nepal and China.
What is Mt. Everest?
400
Area of level land, or rolling hills, at a high elevation.
What is a plateau?
400
This is a huge wave that gets higher when it approaches land.
What is a Tsunami?
400
This river flows westward from mountains to the Yellow Sea. It also flows through the capital of South Korea, Seoul.  
What is the Han River?
400

This is considered to be Japan's main natural resource.

What is fish?

400
Two countries lay on this peninsula.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
500
Ring shaped island that is made up of coral that builds up on an extinct volcano.
What is an atoll?
500
This body of water is nearly enclosed by the Korean Peninsula, mainland Asia and Japan.
What is the Sea of Japan?
500
One of Japan's longest rivers that supply the country with Hydroelectric Power.
What is the Shinano River or the Tone River?
500
This is the amount of forest in the rugged parts of North Korea.
What is about three-fourths?
500
This is a famous volcano in Japan. It rises about 12,400 feet above the Kanto Plain.
What is Mt. Fuji?