COUNTRIES & LOCATION
This country is the largest in East Asia and is home to the Yangtze River.
What is China?
This mountain range forms a natural barrier between India and China.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
Areas that are densely populated have access to what natural resources?
What is fresh water?
This belief system teaches respect for nature and ancestors and originated in Japan.
What is Shintoism?
In this type of government, citizens have little or no role in choosing leaders.
What is an autocracy?
This island nation lies east of the Korean Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Japan?
This desert is the largest in Asia and lies along the border of Mongolia and China.
What is the Gobi Desert?
Deserts and high mountain regions usually have low population density because of what?
What is a harsh climate?
This belief system is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
This country is an example of a parliamentary democracy.
What is Japan or India?
This South Asian country is separated from China by the Himalayan Mountains.
What is India?
This river, also called the Yellow River, flows through northern China and supported early Chinese civilization.
What is the Huang He?
Most major cities in Southern and Eastern Asia developed near these geographic features to support trade.
What are rivers and coastlines?
This belief system focuses on duty, order, and respect for authority rather than worship of gods.
What is Confucianism?
In this type of democracy, citizens vote directly for the president.
What is a presidential democracy?
This country remains divided at the 38th parallel and has an autocratic government in the north.
What is Korea? (North and South Korea)
This river is the longest in China and flows east toward the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)?
Compared to inland regions, coastal areas are more populated mainly because they allow this economic activity.
What is trade?
This belief system includes concepts such as karma, dharma, and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
Citizens in this country participate in government mainly through limited local elections within a communist system.
What is China?
This Southeast Asian country borders China to the north and has a long coastline along the South China Sea.
What is Vietnam?
This peninsula extends between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
This physical barrier limited trade and movement between India and China for centuries.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
These two belief systems share the idea of reincarnation and the goal of ending suffering.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
This country has almost no citizen participation, with power concentrated in one ruling family.
What is North Korea?