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Geography and History of China

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where is China located

a)

Western Asia

b)

Eastern Asia

c)

Southeastern Asia

d)

South Asia

2.

What is loess?

a)

The Yellow River

b)

Yellow paint

c)

Yellow fertile soil

d)

Green fertile fields

3.

Two important factors that isolated China were

a)

natural barriers

b)

rivers

c)

long distances

d)

loess

4.

The Yellow River that gets its color from carrying the loess to fertile lands is also known as the ___.

a)

Nile

b)

Yangtze

c)

Chang

d)

Huang He

5.

The natural barriers to the West of China are __ .

a)

the Tibetan plateau

b)

the Gobi Desert

c)

he Pacific Ocean

d)

the Himalayan Mountains

6.

How can rivers hurt the development of a region?

a)

Rivers can create particularly destructive floods that carry away farms and houses.

b)

Rivers are always necessary to develop civilizations.

c)

Rivers carry fertile soil that they deposit along its shore.

d)

Rivers are used as transportation, fishing grounds, and for water.

7.

The natural barrier to the north of China is __.

a)

Tibetan Plateau

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Gobi Desert

d)

Himalayan Mountains

8.

The natural barrier to the east of China is ___.

a)

Tibetan Plateau

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Gobi Desert

d)

Himalayan Mountains

9.

The natural barriers that prevented invasions, thus allowing less wars were ___

a)

Tibetan Plateau

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Gobi Desert

d)

Himalayan Mountains

10.

Confucianism is __.

a)

belief system based on the ideas of the tinker Confucius

b)

belief system based on the ideas of the thinker Confucius

c)

belief system based on the ideas of the thinker confusion

d)

belief system based on the ideas of the tinker confusianisism

11.

Useful Chinese inventions mentioned in the reading were

a)

uniforms

b)

magnetic compass rose

c)

paper

d)

written language

12.

Daoism's major leader was

a)

Confucius

b)

Dao

c)

Laozi

d)

Gautama

13.

China went through a long period of fights and revolutionary movements until ___ established the Communist Republic in the year___.

a)

Mao Zedong, 1976.

b)

Xi Jinping, 1992.

c)

Mao Zedong, 1949.

d)

Deng Xiaoping, 1976.

14.

China's command economy was given up by ___ in the year of ___, when he reintroduced international trade to China.

a)

Mao Zedong, 1976.

b)

Xi Jinping, 1992.

c)

Mao Zedong, 1949.

d)

Deng Xiaoping, 1976.

15.

A ruling family in China that held power for many years is called ___.

a)

Dynasty

b)

Pharao

c)

Czar

d)

Emperor

16.

The Chinese government tried to stop the opium trade with Britain because __.

a)

opium was to cheap to trade for tea.

b)

opium had bad effects on people.

c)

opium was a highly addictive drug.

d)

opium was too expensive for medicine.

17.

The most important belief systems in China are __.

a)

Buddhism

b)

Hinduism

c)

Daoism

d)

Confucianism

18.

The economic system based on government total control and planning is known as ___.

a)

communist economy

b)

traditional economy

c)

market economy

d)

command economy

19.

Famine is ___.

a)

severe food shortage.

b)

food shortage.

c)

food abundance.

d)

flooding of the land.

20.

The policy introduced by communist China to try to make China a modern country through industrialization was known as ___.

a)

The Great Opening Forward

b)

The International Trade Manufacturing

c)

The Great Leap Forward

d)

The Industrialization Movement