Chinese Geography

What major crop was grown in the south along the banks of the Yangtze River?

• Corn
• Millet
• Rice
• Barley

Ancient China was surrounded by desert, mountains, and ocean. What impact did these natural borders have on the culture?

• They helped to integrate the cultures of other world civilizations
• They cause China to constantly be at war with other world civilizations
• They isolated the Chinese civilization allowing it to develop independently
• They helped China to establish trade with other civilizations

What resource did the rivers provide to the early settlers of China?

• fertile soil
• fish
• transportation
• all of the above

Why is the Yellow River also known as China's Sorrow?

• Sometimes the river have the inability to produce silt for people to grow crops.

• The river frequently floods causing millions of deaths over the course of China's history.

• It is where people go when they are sad.

• China lost many battles against the Hun army along the Yellow River.

The flooding rivers deposited fertile yellow silt called:

• sand

• calcium

• lichen

• loess

What geographic feature is this?

• Tibet Plateau

• Taklimakan Desert

• Himalayan Mountains

• Mongolian Plateau

What geographic feature is this?

• Pacific Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Yellow Sea

What geographic feature is this?

• Indian Ocean

• South China Sea

• Yellow Sea

• Arctic Ocean

What geographic feature is this?

• Kunlun Mountains

• Mt. Everest

• Gobi Desert

• Tibet Plateau

What geographic feature is this?

• Yellow Sea

• Pacific Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• South China Sea