Unit 2 Topic 2 (Migration)

Question 1

Regional Spotlight: China

Ring of fire explanation
1. What it is
2. How were these mountains and volcanoes formed
3. Explain Mount Fuji in Japan
4. Volcanoes in Indonesia (what #)
5. What people rely on to protect themselves

Answer 1

Zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions bordering the pacific ocean.

Mountains were formed as a result of the Ring of Fire Many of these mountains are acutally volcanoes which are still active.

Mount Fuji in Japan sits on the Ring of Fire- is still considered active although it hasn’t erupted in 300 years.

More than 300 volcanoes stretech across Indonesia

People rely on special **building methods and emergency preparedness to help reduce casualties

Question 2

Regional Spotlight: China

Geography of China and rivers. List the 2 main rivers and
* their exact lengths in miles
* What they provide for China
* Downside of the Yellow River.

Answer 2

Ancient China was developed between 2 rivers

Huang He (Yellow River)
* More than 2900 miles long
* Called the Yellow River because it carries tons of fine loess. Loess provides for rich soil in the North China Plain.
* Also called “China’s Sorrow” because it often floods its banks, killing hundreds of thousands of people

Chiang Jiang (Yangtze River) More than 3400 miles long.
* Asia’s longest river
* Provides water for a large agricultural area where more than half China’s rice and other grains are grown

Question 3

Regional Spotlight: China

China’s land
1. What are the 2 things that mostly Cover China?
2. % of china’s land being arable today, and in ancient China.
3. What’s in North China, Northwest (+ info) China, South (+ info), West, and East.
4. What causes the rainbow mountains

Answer 3

Land
* Because most of China is covered in mountains and deserts.
* Only 10% of ancient china was arable.
* It has not changed much today at 12.6%

North China is marked by its many deserts
* Most known is the Gobi Desert

Northwest China
* The Altay Mountains separate it from Russia and Mongolia.
* Temperatures here can drop to -58F in the winter

West
* there are the Himalayas

Rainbow mountains
* Layers of sandstone pressed together by tectonic forces

In the south
* tropical rainforest Mongabay
* Poaching and deforestation has led to a 67% decline of the rainforest

East China
Has rice fields

Question 4

Regional Spotlight: China

China’s lowest point and climate. What is it called and known as?

Answer 4

China’s lowest point is the Turpan Depression, at -154 meters below sea level. It is also known as one of the ”furnaces”of China

Question 5

Regional Spotlight: China

China facts
1. population
2. Ethnic group
3. Language
4. Type of government
5. Type of economy (BUT)
6. Religion (lot of explanation + what happens to ppl in Tibet if they risk jail)

Answer 5

1.4 billion people
Major ethnic group: Han
Language : Mandarin Chinese
Type of Government: Communist
Type of Economy: Communist, but with the capitalist and free market influences to compete globally
REligion. Atheism is encouraged, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism are still popular (those who live in Tibet risk jail for having pictures of the Dalai Lama)

Question 6

Regional Spotlight: China

Tibet
1. what was it once?
2. tensions that still exist?
3. who is from there? Dalai Lama. Explain

Answer 6

Was once a buddhist kingdom.

Tensions still exist between the chinese and the tibetans

Dalai lama is from here (he has lived in exle in India since 1959); he is temporal and spiritual leader of the people of Tibet

Question 7

Regional Spotlight: China

Great wall of China
* How long is it, and why was it built?

Answer 7

Built to keep the people of China safe from attacks from foreigners

nearly 4000 miles long

Question 8

Regional Spotlight: Japan

Japan Physical Geography (mountains
1. number of volcanoes
2. largest mountain/volcano, % of mountainous land, mountain range

Japan Islands
1. How many islands (# of total, # of populated)
2. 5 largest islands and largest of the five.

Answer 8

Japan has approximately 108 active volcanos

Japan is predominantly mountainous
* About 3/4 of the national land is mountains
* Japanese Alps, studded with 3000 meter peaks
* The largest of its mountains/volcanoes is Mount Fuji

Japan is an archipelago that is made up of 6852 islands. Only 421 are populated.
* 5 largest are Hokkaido, Honshu,* Kyushu*, Shikoku, Okinawa. Comparative size of Honshu: California.

Question 9

Regional Spotlight: Japan

Japan facts
* Tokyo population and details
* Ethnic detail
* Language
* Religions
* 2 art forms
* popular sport

Answer 9

Japan’s largest city Tokyo is located on the island of Honshu.
* Most densely populated city in the world with a population of 37.3 million people.

Japan is ethnically homogenous
Language: Japanese
Relgions: Buddhism and Shintoism
Art forms: Origami and Haiku
Popular sport: baseball

Question 10

Regional Spotlight: Japan

Japan details part 2
* Urbanization
* Housing
* Main transportation
* Education (big card)

Answer 10

Urbanization: extremely urbanized

Housing: tiny apartments and small homes

Main transportation: expressways and trains

Education: highly regarded and encouraged; it is compulsory until age 15; Japanese students attend school around 240 days compared to 180 days in the US

Question 11

Regional Spotlight: Japan

What happened on March 11, 2011 in Japan
1. magnitude, and location of the Earthquake
2. what it ultimately caused

Answer 11

9.0 Earthquake shook Northeast Japan in Fukushima Prefecture

Caused massive tsunami that killed several thousand people.

Question 12

Regional Spotlight: Taipei

Where is Taiwan
1. simple description of location of Taiwan
2. What how long and wide is it

Answer 12

Taiwan is located off the coast of China

It is a small island 394 kilometers (245 miles) long and 144 kilometers wide at its broadest point and includes number of smaller islands

Question 13

Mountains in Taiwan
* What mostly covers the island? What %?
* What is the tallest mountain in Taiwan

Taipei
* What is it apart of
* What connects Taipei to the other parts of the island

Answer 13

Foothills and mountains covering over two thirds of the island. Yu Shan Jade mountain, taiwans highest peak at 3952 meters is taller than japan’s mount fuji.

taipei is a part of major high tech industrial area

railways highways airports and bus lines connect taipei with all parts of the island

Question 14

Taiwan conflict
1. How has it been governed
2. who is it home to
3. What has China vowed to do, and what is its relationship with China now?

Answer 14

Taiwan has been governed independently of China since 1949

Its home to Chinese nationaists who fled after communist take over of China

It is still economically interwined with China

China has vowed to eventually unify Taiwan with the mainland using force is necessary.

Question 15

Regional Spotlight: North and South Korea

Korea quick facts
1. ethnic homogeneous?
2. Governments of both
3. what is the DMZ
4. Where was the 2018 winter olympics hosted

Answer 15

ethnically homogeneous korean
* North Korea communist
* South korea democratic

DMZ demilitarized zone: official border established after the korean war.
south korea 2018 winter olympics: pyeongchang

Question 16

What was the volcano in SE asia we talked about in class and what did it cause

Answer 16

Mount pinatubo caldera after 1991 eruption.

Caused Massive crater

Question 17

notes on different types of migration, push pull factors, graphic organizer on google classroom but there are slides on the GC

dont really know cyclic and periodic movement

Essential question - What are the economic social political and cultural effects of migration?

Answer 17

also raven steins laws of migration. and then the brainscape notes begin

Question 18

Describe the 3 types of movement
1. Cyclic Movement
2. Periodic Movement
3. Migration

Answer 18

Cyclic - Journey that begins at home & brings us back to it

Periodic - Brings people back home, but involves a longer period of time away from home.

Migration - Movement that involves in permanent relocation.

Question 19

Explain the 2 types of migration
1. Forced Migration
2. Voluntary Migration

Answer 19

Forced - Imposition of authority or power producing involuntary movements

Voluntary - Migrant weighs options & choices, even if desperately & not rationally, to move to a new place

Question 20

Refugees and Asylum seekers
* define both of them
* united nations high commissioner example

Answer 20

refugee: someone who has been forced to flee their country because of presecution, war, violence

asylum seeker: someone who flees their own country and applies for asylum-the right to be recognized as a refugee and recieve legal protection and material assistance.
* the united nations high commissioner for refugees was created after WWII to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. The organization still works today to protect and assit refugees around the world.

Question 21

Push & Pull Factors
1. what they are
2. 4 examples for each

Answer 21

Push Factors
* Conditions that cause a migrant to decide to leave
* War Famine Persecution Unemployment

Pull Factors
* Circumstances that attract migrants to a specific place from another
* Job opportunities, Closer to friends and family, Better living conditions, Better climate

Question 22

Who was Ernst
Ravenstein and summarize his 9 views on migration

Answer 22

He was a British demographer who wrote rules regarding migration and migrants (1885). Many are still applicable today.

1. Most migrants move only a short distance.
2. Each migration stream produces a counter-stream.
3. Long-distance migrants tend to move to major cities hence the rapid growth of urban areas.
4. Rural residents are more migratory than those in towns.
5. Families are less likely to make international moves than young adults.
   6.Women are more migratory than men short distance, but men are more migratory over long distances.
6. Migration improves the economy.
7. The number one cause of migration is due to economic causes.
8. Migration increases as technology and transportation improve.

Question 23

Examples of Historical U.S. Immigration Laws
Chinese Exclusion Act
Quotas
1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. The 2 things it did, and the three priorities
After 9/11

Answer 23

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: greatly reduced the number of immigrants from
Asia before being repealed in 1943.

Quotas: or limits on migration, were enacted in the 1920s & severely limited the number
of Asian, Arab, and African immigrants allowed in the United States.

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act: created a preference system that gave
priority to relatives and children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents,
professionals and other individuals with specialized skills, and refugees. It also set a limit
on immigration from the Western Hemisphere (120,000 ppl p/yr.)

After 9/11, the United States developed stricter border patrols and immigration
requirements.

Question 24

View on Immigrants??

Answer 24

According to the pew research center, in the US, the nation with the worlds largest number of immigrants, 6-in-10 adultrs (59%) say immigrants make the country stronger because of their work and talents, while one-third (34%) say immigrants are a burden because they take jobs and social benefits

Views about immigrants have shifted in the US since the 1990s, when most AMericans said immigrants were a burden to the country. Views on migration vary in different countries.