Ancient China

The first Chinese cities began near what river?

• Yangtze River

• Nile River

• Yellow River

• Mississippi River

For nearly 1,000 years China was nearly cut off from the rest of the world because of what geographic feature?

• Gobi Desert

• Tibetan mountain plateau

• Himalayan Mountains

• all of these

What river is the deepest river in China and in the world.

• Yangtze River

• Yellow River

• Huang Ho River

• China River

What joins the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?

• big lake

• Grand Canal

• Panama Canal

• Great Wall

What protected ancient China from invaders on its northern and western frontiers?

• Great Wall

• Grand Canal

• Yangtze River

• Yellow River

What do the Chinese call the Yellow River

• Grand Canal

• Beijing

• Yangtze River

• Huang Ho

The Yangtze River flows through what part of China?

• northern

• southern

• eastern

• western

What geographic feature lies to the north of China?

• Tibetan plateau

• Himalayas

• Gobi Desert

• seas

About how many miles long is China's Yellow River?

• 3,000

• 1,500

• 550

• 235

Which river is sometimes called "China's Sorrow?"

• Yellow River

• Yangtze River

• Himalayan River

• China Sea