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Landforms and Resources of East Asia
Objective: Identify important landforms and resources of East Asia and examine how they have
affected population movements and development of economies in the region.
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Answer the questions below using pages 619-623 in your textbook.
Write the page number where you found the answer in the left margin.
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1.
How was the mostly rugged terrain of East Asia formed?
2.
What was one result of these natural barriers?
3.
What limited contact between people living in China and in
other parts of Asia?
4.
True or False: The landscape of East Asia is among the roughest
in the world.
5.
What plateau in China separates the Himalaya Mountains from
the Kunlun Mountains?
6.
What desert stretches from northwest China into Mongolia?
7.
What geographic feature(s) have allowed China to develop
several major port cities?
8.
What peninsula contains two independent nations?
9.
The smaller nations of East Asia are located where?
10.
How many great rivers does China have? How have they been
critical to the development of China’s civilization?
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11.
What river empties into the Yellow Sea?
12.
What is the longest river in all of Asia? What does the river’s
name mean?
13.
What river forms the border between North Korea and China?
14.
Which countries in East Asia have plentiful natural resources?
15.
Which countries in East Asia have limited natural resources?
16.
Why is China’s population is concentrated in the east?
17.
Why is China mostly self-sufficient while Japan is primarily a
trading nation?
18.
How do China’s long river systems contribute to the country’s
economy?
19.
Where do the people of East Asia primarily find their food?
20.
What East Asian country has developed one of the largest
fishing industries in the world? Why?