7-key terms Flashcards
monsoon
a seasonalprevailingwind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (thewet monsoon), or from the northeast between October and April (thedry monsoon).
tsunami
a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake
archipelago
a group of islands
famine
an extreme food scarcity
arable land
land worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China. He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party during that time.
one child policy
the policy to have one child to control chinas population
Three Gorges Dam
hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near the Sandouping
sez
A special economic zone is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country.
tariff
tax on imported and exported go
terracing
make or form (slopingland) into a number of level flat areasresemblinga series of steps.
qin empire
he Qin dynasty, or Ch’in dynasty, was the first dynasty of Imperial China.
pushers
people who push as many people as they can into subways
zero population growth
a population that doesn’t grow or decline
Shinkansen
Japan) arailroadsystem carrying high-speed passenger trains
