Chapter 8 - East Asia

Question 1

Name all the countries in East Asia.

Answer 1

China
Hong-Kong (at bottom) 
Macau (left of Hong Kong)
Taiwan (little island)
Mongolia
North Korea
South Korea
Japan

Question 2

What are some geological characteristics of Tibet?

Answer 2

Mixed forests of pine, oak and Himalayan hemlock. (All trees)

The Tibetan plateau is the highest plateau in the world, what geologists call a Massif ( a mountainous block of Earths crust).

Himalayan mountains with huge peaks.

Question 3

What are some characteristics of the South China Sea?

Answer 3

Countries bordering the south china sea are drilling the seabed for natural gas and oil.

Fishing revenues are extremely viable.

China is building a series of artificial islands to extract resources, secure territory and support naval operations.

Question 4

Where is Hong Kong located?

Answer 4

Hong Kong is located in China.

Question 5

Where is Shanghai located?

Answer 5

Shanghai is located in China.

Question 6

Where is Beijing?

Answer 6

Beijing is located in China.

Question 7

Where is Chongqing located?

Answer 7

Chongqing is located in China.

Question 8

Where is Seoul located?

Answer 8

Seoul is located in South Korea.

Question 9

Where is Pyongyang located?

Answer 9

Pyongyang is located in North Korea.

Question 10

Where is Tokyo located?

Answer 10

Tokyo is located in Japan.

Question 11

Where is Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto located?

Answer 11

Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto are located in Japan.

Question 12

What places did Japan Colonize?

Answer 12

North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan

Question 13

What are the “Asian Tigers”?

Answer 13

Newly industrialized territories of Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore that have experienced rapid economic growth.

Question 14

What is the Silk Road?

Answer 14

An ancient east-west trade route between Europe and China.

Question 15

What are the Opium Wars?

Answer 15

Conflicts between China and Great Britain in the middle of the 1800s that resulted in China’s defeat and the signing of the Treat of Nanking.

Question 16

What is the cultural revolution?

Answer 16

A sustained attack on Chinese traditions and cultural practices in which millions of people were displaced, tens of thousands lost their lives, and much of urban China was plunged into a terrifying climate of suspicion and recrimination; launched in 1966 by Mao Zedong, who called it a great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Question 17

What is the Green revolution ?

Answer 17

A technological package of higher-yielding seeds, especially wheat, rice, and corn, that in combination with irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, and farm machinery was able to increase crop production in the developing world after 1950.

Question 18

Who is Mao Zedong?

Answer 18

A communist leader and founder of the peoples republic of China.

Five Year Plan

A social and economic development initiatives typically in centrally planned economies, especially including communist china and soviet union.