Geography
This mountain range forms a huge natural barrier in southwest China.
What are the Himalayas?
China’s largest city and a major finance/trade center.
What is Shanghai?
In 1949, this group won the civil war and took control of mainland China.
Who are the Communists?
Many traditional families herded animals and lived in these portable round tents.
What are gers?
家 is the Mandarin word for this
What is family?
This high region north of the Himalayas is called the “Roof of the World.”
What is the Tibetan Plateau (Plateau of Tibet)?
This is the capital city of Taiwan.
What is Taipei?
This movement of people from countryside to cities is called ____.
What is urbanization?
Mongolia’s climate is harsh and ____, with long cold winters and low rainfall.
What is a continental climate? (Accept: “continental”)
Taiwan’s economy is strong in technology and manufacturing, especially ____.
What are electronics?
This river is called the “Cradle of Chinese Civilization.”
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
This is the capital city of China.
What is Beijing?
Under this leader, the government tightly controlled land, farms, and factories.
Who is Mao Zedong?
In 1990, Mongolia transitioned peacefully to this kind of government.
What is democracy?
This is Taiwan's tallest building.
What is Taipei 101?
This cold desert lies in northern China and southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?
A Chinese city built (or expanded) with no one living in it is sometimes called a “____ city.”
What is a ghost city?
After Mao, China allowed some market-based changes but kept this type of political system.
What is a communist system (one-party rule)?
Mongolia’s economy depends heavily on this industry (coal and metals).
What is mining?
人 is the Mandarin word for this.
What is person?
This flat, fertile region is one of China’s most important farming areas.
What is the North China Plain?
This city is a major port/financial center with a unique history and legal system. It was once ruled by the British Empire.
What is Hong Kong?
China’s rapid growth has caused major air and water ____.
What is pollution?
Mongolia’s capital city is this (tough spelling alert).
What is Ulaanbaatar?
不 is the Mandarin word for this.
What is the word "no"