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Quiz chap 7 & 8 Flashcards

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Which state is the second most populated state on earth?

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China

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What is the popualtion of China?

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1.40 billion

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What is the area density of China? What is its rank in terms of land area?

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Area of 9.6M km2 and third largest in area after Canada

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What is the annual precipitation in the south-eastern part?

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Above 1000mm

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Which region is at the same latitude as hudson bay in Canada?

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Manchuria, the northernmost part of China

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What are the three regions China can be divided into?

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Western China, North-East and South East

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What is the landscape in western China?

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numerous mountains and deserts

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What is the annual precipitation in western china?

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The region receives less than 250mm

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What is the climate in western China

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Dry and continental

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True or False: Western China has a lot of farming resourcess

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False, they are weaker

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What is the population in western China?

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It is sparsely populated and has several ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Uyghur, Mongols, Tibetans

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What is the population like in estern China?

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It is densely populated with a relatively homogenous population of Han Chinese

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What is the climate in Eastern China?

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temperate or subtropical

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What are the farming conditions in eastern China?

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good

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What is the dominant landscape in North eastern China?

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river plain

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What is the precipitation in north eastern china?

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less than 1m per year

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What is the dominant farming type in north eastern China?

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dry cereals such as wheat to make noodles

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Why is there more precipitation in the South-East China?

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Due to the summer Monsoon

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What does the summer monsoon allow south-east China to grow?

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rice

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True or False, the way chinese write are the same but the way it is read is different?

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True

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What are the two spoken languages in China and where are they spoken?

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Madarin in the area of Beijing and cantonese in the south of china like in Hong Kong and Guangzhou

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What are the Chinese big cities?

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Beijing, the capital of China
Shanghai, the largest and most developing
Hong Kong, a former British colony that reverted the country in 997

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How many urban center with more than 1M people does China have?

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What is the most ambitious engineering projects in the world?

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The Three gorge Dam

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Where is the hydroelectric dam located?
on the Chang Jiang river
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What was the impact of the creation of the Dam?
1.3M residents had to be relocated
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Since when is the three gorge dam functional?
2012
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How many chinese are users of the internet?
more than 1050M people in 2023
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True or False: China is the largest market for mobile phone?
True
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How many chiense have phone subscrition?
1733.01M in 2021
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What are the consequences of the one child policy?
There were 118 boys for 100 girls in China in 2005 compared to the natural ratio of 105:100. In 2020, China has estimated 34M more men than women
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Where does China stand in the ranking of energy consumer?
It stands at the top, surpassing USA
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How many percent of china's electricty is generated by burning coal?
64%
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China is the largest CO2 emitter with how many of the worlds total percent?
30% in 2018
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China is becoming the world leader in developing cleaner ways to produce energy. Which clean energy do they use?
hydroelectricity, wind power, and solar energy
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How many gigawatts in production capacity for wind energy has China added in 2015?
30.8 gigawatts
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Describe the major earthquake that took place in China in 2008.
earthquake of magnitude 8.0, killed more than 69,000 people in the Chinese province of Sichuan
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The ten deadlieast natrual disasters occured in Asia. How many of them occured in China?
6 of them occured in China, 3 floods and 3 earthquakes
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Describe the Great Wall of China.
It was built over a period of more than 2000 years by different Chinese emperors to protect the Empire from possible northern intrusion. It is not a single structure but rather a series of different more or lass connected structures. It is about 6300km long
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What is the national symbol of China?
The Giant Panda
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Describe the Giant Panda.
it is a vegetarian animal. As a result of the farming, deforstation, and other developements, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas. In march 2015, the population of the giant panda has reached 1864
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True or false: Tibet wants to regain its independance.
True. it has distinct people, language, and religion
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Who is the former political and still spiritual leader of Tibet who lives in exile in Dharamsala, northern India?
The Dalai Lama
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What is the turkic minority group?
Uyghurs, since 2015, more than 1 million of them have been detained in reeducation camps
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Which country has the lowest popualtion density on earth?
Mongolia, about the size of Quebec has a population density of 2 inhabitants/km2
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What is the landscape in mongolia?
It is a coutry of steppes and deserts, including the Gobi desert, one of the largest on earth
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What is a fun fact about Taiwan?
It has a chinese popualtion but remained out of communist China after the 1949 revolution
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WHen were the koreas divided?
After the second world war
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Describe north and south korea.
North korea: ruled by a communist dictator, is extremely poor South korea: has a prospering economy
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What is the most developped region of the country?
Japan
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What is the capital of Japan and the largest urban center on earth?
Tokyo with 38M inhabitants
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How is the rainy season over southern Asia called?
The Monsoon
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When does the Monsoon start and how long does it last?
It starts in june and lasts four months, it gradually moves from the south-east to the northwest (cities include INdia, bangladeshand a little in pakistan)
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