Rivers
Mountains
Other Landforms
General Knowledge
Impacts on Culture
100

This is the longest river in China.

What is the Yangtze River?

100
This is the highest mountain on Earth.

What is Mt. Everest?

100

A mostly flat, high elevation area.

What is a Plateau?

100

China is located in this continent.

What is Asia?

100

Because of its natural barriers, China was ___________ from its neighbors for much of history.

What is isolated?
200

The northernmost major river in China.

What is the Songhua River?

200

These mountains form the southeast border of China.

What are the Himalaya Mountains?

200

Rivers often lie at the bottom of these landforms.  They generally have fertile soil which is good for farming.

What are valleys?

200

This ocean lies beyond the barrier islands off the east coast of China.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

Most early civilizations in China existed along these geographic features.

What are rivers?

300

This river is also called the Yellow River.

What is the Huang He River?

300

These mountains form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

What are the Kunlun Mountains?

300

This desert is located in northwest China.

What is the Taklamakan Desert?

300

Name three countries that share a border with China.

What are: North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam?

300

The majority of the population of China lives in this part of the country.

What is the east coast (also acceptable: east or southeast)?
400

The Pearl River is also called this.

What is the Xi Jiang?
400

These mountains are mostly in Mongolia but also help create the northwestern border of China.

What are the Altai mountains?

400
Only part of this desert lies in China, but it is the largest desert in Asia.

What is the Gobi desert?

400

The Huang He river flows into this body of water.

What is the Yellow Sea?

400

This crop was a stable of early Chinese civilizations located along the Huang He river.

What is Millet?

500

This is where the Yangtze River ranks globally in terms of length.

What is the third?

500

You can access Mt. Everest from these two countries.

What are Nepal and China?

500

Because of its geography, rivers in China typically flow from _________ to __________.

What is West to East?
500

A yellow, silty substance that blows off the Gobi desert and into the Yellow River, giving it its name.

What is Loess?

500
The Great Wall of China does not extend all the way to the western border of China because of the existence of this geographical feature.

What is the Taklamakan Desert?