East Asia

Question 1

The East Asian geographic realm forms a roughly ________ wedge between the vast expanses of eastern ________ to the north and the populous countries of South and Southeast _____ to the south, its edges often marked by high _________ ranges or remote ______.

Answer 1

triangular, Russia, Asia, mountains, deserts

Question 2

Major deserts of East Asia

Answer 2

Takla Makan- far west
Gobi- China meets Mongolia
Ordos

Question 3

The vast majority of the population live in the area with the _______ relief and often the most _____ soil

Answer 3

relief, fertile

Question 4

Today the ________ and the ________ are arguing over the ownership of small islands in these waters (Taiwan Straight, South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Korea Strait), specks of land surrounded by possible oil reserves and fishing grounds claimed by both sides.

Answer 4

Japanese, Chinese

Question 5

______ is East Asia’s dominant country and it contains more than 85 percent of the realm’s population

Answer 5

China

Question 6

There are 5 other entities (besides China) on East Asia’s map: ____, _____ _____, _____ _____, ________, and ________

Answer 6

Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan

Question 7

______ ______ is not even a fully functional member of the United Nations

Answer 7

North Korea

Question 8

The Pacific Ring of Fire endangers _____ more than it does ______

Answer 8

Japan, China

Question 9

The northern and western sectors of this realm are dominated by conditions that do not favor substantial population clusters. Permanent ____ and ____ cover much of the area mapped.

Answer 9

snow, ice

Question 10

________ is one of the driest countries in the world

Answer 10

Mongolia

Question 11

The capital of Beijing has warm summers but long bitterly cold winters

Answer 11

true

Question 12

The overwhelming majority of East Asia’s inhabitants are located in the ___________ one-third of the realm’s territory, creating the largest and most densely settled population cluster in the world.

Answer 12

easternmost

Question 13

The fertile river basins and coastal plains of East Asia supported ever larger farming populations, whose descendant still live on that same land: for all of its ongoing industrialization and urbanization more than __ percent of the population of China remains rural to this day

Answer 13

40

Question 14

2 most important rivers of China (in the middle)

Answer 14

• Huang He (Yellow River)- makes a huge loop around the Ordos Desert and then flows across the North China Plain into the Bohai Gulf
• Yangzi River- known as Chang Jiang, most famous

Question 15

The ______ River is the primary artery if the Lower Chang Basin; at its mouth lies China’s largest city, ______, and in its middle course the water flow is controlled by the world’s biggest dam.

Answer 15

Yangtze, Shanghai

Question 16

2 smaller rivers of

Answer 16

Xi Jiang (West River)
Liao- northernmost river, originates near the margin of the Gobi Desert

Question 17

Japan’s environmental range is expressed by cold northern ________ and warm southern ______, but Japan’s core area lies on its main island, ______

Answer 17

Hokkaido, Kyushu, Honshu

Question 18

Until the 1980’s, China’s biggest resource has been its fertile, river-deposited alluvium (____)

Answer 18

silt

Question 19

China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations, and the Chinese imperial state can be traced back to at least ____ BC when the first ruling dynasty came to power

Answer 19

1766

Question 20

Giving a Chinese cultural imprint, also called Hanificaiton

Answer 20

sinicization

Question 21

The most varied and most numerous minority groups inhabit the ________ corner of this realm, from Hainan Island northward to the mouth of the Yangzi River

Answer 21

southeastern

Question 22

With the Japanese finally out of the way, civil wat resumed with a vengeance between the ___________ (commanded by Chiang Kai-shek) and the ____ _____ (led by the chair of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong)

Answer 22

Nationalist, Red Army

Question 23

On ________ __, _____ (date), standing in front of the assembled masses at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Mao proclaimed the birth of the _______ _______ of _______

Answer 23

October 1, 1949, People’s Republic of China

Question 24

The so-called ____ ___ _______ (the propaganda term for what this aimed to accomplish) was a failed attempt at the end of the 1950’s to accelerate the growth of industrial and agricultural productivity. It ended as perhaps the worst human-engineered catastrophe in the world’s history, causing between 30 and 45 million deaths, mostly from starvation

Answer 24

Great Leap Forward

Question 25

Another calamitous episode of Mao’s rule was the so-called ______ __________ _________ ______, launched during his final decade in power. It was a vicious campaign against what he viewed as emerging elitism in society (most likely, it was a strategy of power consolidation in the name of culture). 30 million died

Answer 25

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 26

Japan’s sensational development success did not go unnoticed, particularly in the Asia Pacific’s smaller-scale, dynamic, upwardly bound economies that were soon being labeled the four ______ ______: Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore

Answer 26

Asian Tigers

Question 27

In the 1960’s and 1970’s, the 4 Asian Tigers embarked on similar strategies that resulted in rapid industrialization propelled by the attraction of foreign direct investment and the creation of export processing zones for manufacturing ___-____-______ ______, including computers, mobile phones, kitchen appliances, and a plethora of electronic devices

Answer 27

high-value-added goods

Question 28

______ was part of China during the Qing Dynasty. It was stolen from China by Japanese imperialist in 1895, when it was knowns as Formosa. Then, when communists and Nationalists were fighting each other for control of mainland China right after WWII, and the communist were about to win, the Nationalists in 1949 fled by plane and boat to Taiwan, where they overpowered the locals.

Answer 28

Taiwan

Question 29

The seven realms of East Asia

Answer 29

1. China’s Coastal Core
2. China’s Interior
3. China’s Western Periphery
4. Mongolia
5. The Korean Peninsula
6. Japan
7. Taiwan

Question 30

• China’s core area

- East Asia’s most influential region

Answer 30

China’s Coastal Core

Question 31

-fastest growing region today

Answer 31

China’s Interior

Question 32

• two large Autonomous Regions constitute this region- Xizang (Tibet) and Xinjiang

Answer 32

China’s Western Periphery

Question 33

• Landlocked

- sparsely populated and poverty-ridden

Answer 33

Mongolia

Question 34

United States is a federation whereas China is an extremely centralized _______ state

Answer 34

unitary

Question 35

China is divided into
\_\_ Central-government-controlled Municipalities
\_\_ provinces
\_\_ special administrative regions
\_\_ autonomous regions

Answer 35

4, 22, 2, 5

Question 36

4 municipalities

Answer 36

Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing

Question 37

The five ___________ ______ were created in order to recognize the non-Han ethnic minorities living there

Answer 37

autonomous regions

Question 38

the main outlet of the XI River Basin

Answer 38

China’s Pearl River Estuary

Question 39

temporary urban dwellers with restricted residency rights

Answer 39

floating population