L19 Geography of Ancient China

Match the following

• Invaders

• Inner China

• Built Great Wall

• Outer China

• Nomads

• Inner China

• Lots of Agriculture

• Outer China

• Permanent homes

• Inner China

Match the following about climate in China

• Gobi and Taklimakan Desert

• Outer China

• Yellow river flows through here

• Tibetan Plateau

• Yellows and Yangtze rivers start here

• Chang Jiang Basin

• Yangtse river flows here

• North China Plain

• Outer China

  "Roof of the World"

• Tibetan Plateau

Match the following Vocabulary (you can use your slides).

• Place where water can be found (usually in a desert)

• Oasis

• to set apart from other people or things

• Tributary

• light fertile soil that yields bountiful crops

• Loess

• the average weather conditions in a region

• Climate

• a stream or river that feeds into a larger river or lake

• isolated

Which of the following is NOT true about the Tibetan Plateau?

• Travel to other regions was extremely difficult.

• The weather was too cold to grow crops

• Winters were extremely cold and summers were too hot.

Use your notes to describe Inner China.

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Nomads with livestock who roamed the Gobi or Taklimakan deserts need to settle near an ​ (a)   ​ in order to be able to raise their animals.

• Oasis
• the Mountains
• The plateau

True or False: In the Northeastern Plain, the Liao and Sungari rivers freeze and are used as roads in the winter.

• True

• False

True or false: The Huang He (Yellow river) carries silt from the desert, which turns the water green and gives the river it's name.

• True

• False

Silt from the ​ (a)   helps ​ (b)   the ​ (c)   for famers, which helps them grow heathy ​ (d)  

• Yellow River
• fertilize
• soil
• crops
• Liao River
• Ghengis River
• poison
• mountains
• forest
• pigs