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China's Economic and Energy Crisis
India Connecting Globally
Monsoon Asia
Population Density in Japan
Geo Terms
100
clean energy, flood control, safer river shipping
What is the Three Gorges Dam
100
cell phones, personal computers, communication satellites
What is global revolution in information technology?
100
They have the largest democracy in the world.
What is India?
100
land that is farmable.
What is arable land?
100
people are spread out in various areas and/or regions
What is population distribution.
200
special economic zones
What is the policy that was most successful in raising China's gross domestic product?
200
Hiring someone outside a company to do work that was once done by the company's own workers
What is outsourcing
200
32 are in the Gorges Dam
What are generators?
200
physiologic population
What is taking the population divided by the arable land.
200
to hire someone outside a company to do work that was once done inside the company.
What is outsourcing.
300
how fast its population is growing each year
What is a country's rate of natural increase?
300
a comparative advantage that attracts foreign companies to the United States
What is highly educated workers?
300
A zoo in Japan appears in this unlikely spot.
What is underground?
300
terraces for farming into the hillside and building up earthquake resistant buildings
What are people doing in Japan to use the land that is available to them.
300
a severe shortage of food that result in widespread hunger
What is famine.
400
Mao caused the population to double in China between 1950 and 1990
What is the "Giant Leap Forward" plan
400
there are 24 of these in the world today
What are time zones?
400
People used these to melt steel during the time period of The Great Leap Forward
What are backyard furnaces?
400
Subways and trains are crowded and there limited places to park.
What is the problem with transportation around Japan?
400
the length of time it takes for a population to double.
What is doubling time.
500
This dam is lying on a crack in the earth called a...
What is a fault line.
500
People in this country speak more then 1,000 dialects
What is India.
500
These are built to generate clean energy.
What is a dam.
500
Mountains are 3/4 of this country.
What is Japan.
500
in the 1870's, China's, crops failed and people began to starve
What is a drought.