Spring 2022 Review Set#1

Most of the population in China

• lives on just one-sixth of the land.

• lives in the eastern portion of the country.

• lives in the Tian Shan.

• lives in Inner Mongolia.

The majority of Taiwan’s population is

• indigenous Taiwanese.

• ethnic Mongolian.

• ethnic Chinese.

• ethnic Tibetan.

In 1989 students held protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and demanded

• the establishment of normal relations with Japan.

• the establishment of a communist state.

• the end of apartheid.

• democratic reforms.

The ________, the world’s longest human-made waterway, flows from Beijing to Hangzhou, some 1,000 miles (1,609 km).

• Gobi Canal

• Grand Canal

• Huang He Canal

• Three Gorges Dam reservoir

What are the world’s highest mountains and the location of Mount Everest?

• Pamirs

• Kunlun Shan

• Himalaya

• Tian Shan

How is Mongolia’s climate an example of the rain shadow effect?

• Mongolia has a subtropical climate.

• Mongolia is mostly covered by wetlands.

• Mongolia has a humid, continental climate.

• Mongolia is mostly covered by desert.

Today only about 2 percent of Taiwan’s people are ________, or the descendants of the original people who inhabited the islands.

• Han

• indigents

• aborigines

• Cantonese

In China many rural people have

• abandoned urban areas.

• emigrated to Taiwan.

• migrated to urban areas.

• emigrated to Mongolia.

Following the crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, several of China’s major trading partners imposed ________ on China.

• martial law

• moratoriums

• a special economic zone

• economic sanctions

Northeastern China has abundant deposits of ________, which is a source of cheap but highly polluting fuel.

• petroleum

• iron

• coal

• tin