Geography of China and administration 3 Flashcards
The second step includes：？
Second Step: This includes the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the Tarim Basin, the Junggar Basin, and the Sichuan Basin. The average elevation of this step is between 1,000 and 2,000 meters2.
What is third plateau step ?
Third Step: This step begins at a line drawn around the Greater Hinggan, Taihang, Wushan, and Xuefeng mountain ranges and extends eastward to the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The elevation drops to 500-1,000 meters in this step
Landform Types in China included?
1.mountains,
2.plateaus,
3.basins,
4.plains
5.hills.
The highest point in China is?
Zhūmùlāmǎfēng珠穆拉玛峰 (EVEREST) Mount Qomolangma Height of 8844.43metres
What is fourth plateau step ?
Fourth Step: This is the continental shelf extending out into the ocean, with water less than 200 meters deep2
What are big four rivers in China ?
1.长江(The Yangtze River)
2.黄河(the Yellow River)
3.黑龙 江 Heilongjiang River
4.珠江 Zhujiang River
The Yangtze River length ?
The Yangtze River, 6,300 km long
The Yellow ( Huanghe) river length?
The Yellow River is the second largest river in China with a length of 5,500 km
The Heilong river length?
The Heilong River is a large river in north China with a total length of 4,350 km, of which, 3,101 km are in China
The Zhujiang river length?
The Pearl (Zhujiang) River, 2,214 km long, is a large river in south China.
“Four Major Freshwater Lakes
1.鄱阳湖 Poyang, (江西)
2.太湖 Taihu, ( 江苏)
3.洞庭湖 Dongting (湖南)
4.洪泽湖 Hongze (江苏)
What is saltwater lake ?
Qinghai Lake, literally Blue Lake, is called Koke nuur by Mongolian, which identically means blue lake.
a famous man-made river ?
the Grand Canal, running from Beijing in the north to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province in the south
Grand Canal length ?
a total length of 1,801 km, the Grand Canal is the longest as well as the oldest man-made waterway in the world( a history of more than 2500 years
