Physical Geography
Culture and History
China
Japan
The Koreas
100
True or false- Fertile soil is not able to support plant growth.
What is false?
100
True or false- Arranged marriages are marriages that family members decide who will marry who.
What is true?
100
Name one major river in China.
What are the Chang and Huang Rivers?
100
A subsidy is food given by the government to help private business.
What is false?
100
The reason why South Korea and North Korea are different countries.
What are different types of governments?
200
Name the highest mountains and the highest peak in the world.
What are the Himalayas and Mt. Everest?
200
The name which ancient Chinese leaders gave to China.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
200
Name the group of people who got defeated by the Communists and fled to Taiwan.
What are the Nationalists?
200
Fill in the blank - After World War II, Japan was in _____.
What are ruins?
200
Fill in the blank - DMZ stands for _____________ ____.
What is the demilitarized zone?
300
Name the place where most of China's population lives.
What is the North China Plain?
300
The items that Commodore Perry used to intimidate and open up Japan for trading.
What are four warships?
300
The program name that started in 1958 and was supposed to help China, but didn't.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
300
Describe the reason why countries were mad at Japan.
What was Japan selling to countries, but not buying from them?
300
Name one thing that programs in South Korea have helped.
What are growth of industries; farmers; increase in crop production; improved housing, roads, and water supplies; and brought electricity to rural areas.
400
The name of the type of tree that changes color with the seasons.
What is deciduous?
400
Fill in the blank- China had many _________, but Korea only had three _________. (Hint- the blanks are the same word.)
What are dynasties?
400
Fill in the blank - The people who governed Taiwan used the ____ __________ system.
What is the free enterprise system?
400
Name two of Japan's main islands.
What are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
400
The year since the Korean Peninsula has been split into two different countries.
What is 1945?
500
Describe the land-form of Japan.
What is an archipelago?
500
The number of years that the Korean War lasted.
What is three years?
500
Name the country which China took back in 1997 from the British.
What is Hong Kong?
500
Name two products that America and Europe eagerly bought from Japan.
What are television sets, cars, and electronics?
500
Name three bad things that happened to North Korea when it closed itself up from the world.
What are starvation, no new technology or ideas, manufactures poor-quality goods, and outdated farming?