4.3

Question 1

支流

Answer 1

Tributaries

Question 2

長江

Answer 2

Chang jiang

Question 3

黃河

Answer 3

Huang he

Question 4

珠江

Answer 4

Zhu jiang

Question 5

河盤/流域

Answer 5

River basin

Question 6

地勢

Answer 6

Relief

Question 7

東

Answer 7

East

Question 8

西

Answer 8

West

Question 9

季風氣候

Answer 9

Monsoon climate

Question 10

季風

Answer 10

Monsoon

Question 11

向岸風

Answer 11

Onshore wind

Question 12

離岸風

Answer 12

Offshore wind

Question 13

乾旱地區

Answer 13

Arid region

Question 14

半乾旱地區

Answer 14

Semi-arid region

Question 15

半濕潤地區

Answer 15

Semi-humid region

Question 16

濕潤地區

Answer 16

Humid region

Question 17

沿海地帶

Answer 17

Coastal area

Question 18

回收（？）

Answer 18

Reclaming

Question 19

地陷

Answer 19

Land subsidence

Question 20

海水倒灌

Answer 20

Saltwater intrusion

Question 21

What are the three major rivers in china?

Answer 21

Chang Jiang zhu jiang and huang he

Question 22

What is the name of the area drained by a river and it’s tributaries?

Answer 22

River basin

Question 23

The three major rivers flow from where to where?

Answer 23

West to east

Question 24

What is the relationship of precipitation of coastal area and inland areas?

Answer 24

The coastal areas in china receive more precipitation than inland areas

Question 25

Where the dry regions are founded?

Answer 25

Mainly in the north and the north-west

Question 26

The amount of water resources in china decreases from where to where ?How is the distribution ?

Answer 26

South-east to north-west uneven

Question 27

What has been happening to the water cycle of china?

Answer 27

Cutting trees on a large scale
Building Dams
Reclaiming lakes
Overdrawing groundwater for human activities

Question 28

How does land subsidence occurs?

Answer 28

Without the groundwater to give support to the land above it and the soil collapses and the land sinks

Question 29

水份

Answer 29

Moisture

Question 30

When the slow of a channel becomes gentle the water flow slows down sand and soil in the river tend to be deposited on the river bed what is this called

Answer 30

Silting

Question 31

What is the result of silting

Answer 31

River bed become shallow

Question 32

What is the Phenomenon that treees are cut on a large scale

Answer 32

Deforestation

Question 33

Without trees what will decrease more water flows over the land

Answer 33

Infiltration

Question 34

What is overgrazing

Answer 34

The livestock eats up the grass that is protecting the soil

Question 35

What is the phenomenon crops grow intensive lin slopes will cause the soil to become poor

Answer 35

Over-cultivation

Question 36

Both overgrazing and over-cultivation may cause ____?when the soil is washed into the channel what become more serious

Answer 36

Soil erosion silting

Question 37

Many lakes in china have been used for freshwater fish ponds or?

Answer 37

Reclaimed for farming and settlements

Question 38

The surface of much of the land is covered with _____when rain falls it cannot infiltration underground so it become

Answer 38

Concrete Overland flow

Question 39

How can we eased flooding problem in two ways

Answer 39

Regulating river flow

Increasing the holding capacity of river channels

Question 40

What are the measures taken by china to ease flooding

Answer 40

Building Dams giving up farmland and fish ponds

Planting trees and controlling terracing

Question 41

The building of the Dan is dam has created a big reservoir behind it what can the reservoir do

Answer 41

Store water from the upstream areas when there is heavy rain in the upper course the dam can hold and slow down the river water flowing downstream

Question 42

What are the advantages of the project?

Answer 42

Control flooding in the Chang Jiang basin
Promoting tourism
Improving water transport

Question 43

What are the disadvantages of the project

Answer 43

People upstream have to be relocated

Collapse of dam will flood the downstream area