Ancient China : Lesson 1

This is a fine yellowish brown soil from the Ordos Desert that is collected by Huang River

• more

• loess

• dirt

• siltie

These are platforms that resemble stairs that are used to grow crops on the side of a mountain

• terraces

• steppes

• plains

• stairs

A dike or man made wall used to control flooding

• Great Wall of China

• gate

• levee

• canal

An area of flat land where the Huang River runs through and is the center of agriculture in China

• North China Plain

• Beijing

• Guangxi Zhungzu

• Tibetan Plateau

A process in which you can have two harvests in a season.

• bicropping

• unicropping

• multi-cropping

• double cropping

The tallest mountain range in the world and the source of most of the river water in China

• Ural

• Himalayas

• Taurus

• Cascade

Another name for the Huang River it devastated crops, people and homes causing famine (time of starvation due to a lack of food).

• River of Dreams

• China's Nightmare

• River of Tears

• China's Sorrow

The movement of sediment by water, wind or ice flow

• erosion

• weathering

• cementation

• compaction

The capital of present day China and the center of Chinese culture since the 1200s AD

• Luoyang

• Nepal

• Beijing

• Anyang

Also known as China's Sorrow, a river that runs through the Ordos Desert collecting loess and empties into the Yellow Sea.

• Tigris River

• Huang River

• Euphrates River

• Nile River