Tuesday- Things to get Done

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Tuesday- Things to get Done

• 1. Complete Building Vocab parts A and B for all
  three chapters
• 2. Vocab Pic/Def
• On your sheet of paper you need your Word, a
  definition, and a picture (look at government
  examples in back of room). NEED COLOR.
• 3. Work on Part Cs in Composition Notebooks
  (17). These are due on Thursday.

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Warm Up

• Grab notes from the back table
• Turn in pictures (if you did not do so yesterday)

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Physical Geography of East Asia
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Satellite View of China
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The East Asian Realm

• Physical landforms
• One of the most rugged topography in the world.
• Q1 What accounts for these complex landforms?
• Limited flat land
• Q2 What are some solutions to this problem?

- Tectonic Activity
Terracing and irrigation. Maximize agricultural
productivity.
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China

• The People's Republic of China (PRC)
• Est. in 1949/Mao Zedong
• China is ruled by the Communist Party of China
  under a single-party system

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Chinas Geography

• 1. 3rd largest country in the world.
• 2. Comparable surface with the United States
• U.S. 3.6 million square miles.
• China 3.7 million square miles.
• 3. 65 of the country is mountainous.
• 4. Arable land represents 12 of the national
  territory as opposed to 25 for the United
  States.
• 5. Per capita (0.086 hectare) is well below the
  world average.

China
United States
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China vs. US
China United States
Size 3.7 million square miles 3.6 million square miles
Main physical barrier Himalayas Rockies
Main River Yangtze / East - West Mississippi / North South
Population East Coast East Coast
Connectivity problems North - South East - West
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Q3 What is this type of agriculture called?
AND, why do you think that it was developed?
Terraced farming rugged terrain/topography/mounta
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Bodies of Water
Amur River
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
Huang-He River
Yangtze River
Pacific Ocean
Xi River
SouthChinaSea
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The Yellow River!
Huang He (Yellow River). -Subject to flooding,
especially in its delta. -Changes course many
times. -Extremely polluted -Industrialization
along the river
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Chang Jiang River (Yangtze) -Longest river
(6,300 km). -Flood of 1998 left 14 million
homeless. -Home to the Three Gorges Dam -Helps
flooding -Generates power -Allows ships to
sail further into China -Worlds largest
dam -Created a reservoir that made 1,000
towns and villages disappear
The Yangtze River
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The West River and the Pearl River

• Xi Jang (West River)
• Joins up with the Pearl River
• Important mineral resources are along this river

• Zhu Jiang (Pearl River)
• Most productive and sustainable ecosystem in the
  world.
• Rice paddies and fish ponds.

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Heilong Jiang (Amur)

• Chinas border with Russia

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China

• Q4 What is the name of each river (One point
  per name)

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1. Huang He (Yellow River)
2. Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
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• Xi Jiang (West River) OR Zhu Jiang (Pearl River)

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4. Heilong Jiang (Amur)
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Mountains Peaks
Altai Mts.
Greater Khingan
Tian Shan
Kunlun Shan
Himalayan Mts.
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Kunlun Mountains

• Located in the west
• Where two of Chinas great rivers begin (Yellow
  and Yangtze)

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Deserts Plateaus
Gobi Desert
Taklamakan Desert
Tibetan Plateau
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• Mongolian Plateau
• Most who live here are sheep herders and raise
  livestock
• Tibetan Plateau
• Averages more than 3,000 feet above sea level
• Gobi Desert
• Stretches more than 500,000 miles
• Prime area for finding dinosaur fossils
• All three are scarcely populated because of
  severe climates and topography

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China

• The Chinese Realm
• East sea border.
• West Deserts and mountains.
• North Deserts.
• South Himalayas.
• Q5 What will these borders cause?
• Cultural division between the Han realm and the
  China of the minorities.
• Han China represents 92 of the population.
• Minorities live in mountainous or arid regions.

Maritime border
Cultural border
Physical border
Turkic
Mongols
Arid China
Isolation
Gobi
Takla Makan
Koreas
Highland China
Han
Tibetan
Tai Miao-Yao
Taiwan
Political border
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Climate
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Chinas Climate Zones
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Monsoon Precipitation Patterns
This region also benefits/suffers from the
rainfall from monsoons Sometimes receive
typhoons tropical storms
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Winter Monsoons
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Summer Monsoons
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Precipitation in China
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Summer Rainfall
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Vegetation
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Agricultural Regions in China
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Arable Land
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Brown China vs. Green China
Q6 What other division occurred across this
line? Think population and use your notes
Wheat Dominant
Pasture and Oasis
Han China vs. Minority China
Rice Dominant
Double-crop rice
SOURCE Topic 5 The Awakening Giant by Dr.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Dept. of Economics
Geography, Hofstra University.
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South China
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Natural Resources
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Major Chinese Industries
Major Industrial Areas near Beijing and Shanghai
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Fuels, Power, Minerals, Metals in China
Large reserves of petroleum, coal, and natural
gas.
Mineral resources include iron, lead, zinc,
copper, etc.
Allowed them to be self-sufficient for much of
its history
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Environmental issues

• Suffering from
• Deforestation
• Desertification
• Soil erosion
• Coastal pollution
• Flooding
• Poor urban air quality

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Korea

• The shrimp between the whales
• Q6 What are the two whales?
• Japan and China
• About the size of Indiana.
• Population of 48 million.
• Highly homogenous ethnicity and linguistically
  (100 Korean).
• Religiously divided between Christianity (49)
  and Buddhism (47).
• 75 urban with 27 of the population living in
  Seoul (13 million).

China
North Korea
Sea of Japan
Demilitarized zone
South Korea
Japan
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Korea is practically surrounded by water Q7
What is this called?

Peninsula
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Korea

• Geography
• Much of peninsula covered by rugged mountains,
  limits land for agriculture
• Mountain ranges run north and south along east
  coast
• Main population centers in west land flattens to
  plains

• Early Korea
• First Koreans nomadic peoples from northeastern
  Asia formed clans
• Developed own culture but influenced by Chinas
  Han dynasty, 108 BC
• Adopted Confucianism, Chinese writing, political,
  agricultural methods

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Japan
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Japan and the United States
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Japan Physical Geography

• 1. The homeland of Japan consists of four main
  islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu,
  and several hundred smaller islands.
• 2. Japan is formed largely of mountains
  separated by narrow valleys.
• 3. Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
• There are about 60 volcanoes in Japan, of which
  the best known is Mount Aso. Mount Fuji (12,388
  ft) is not active.
• 4. Japan is subject to frequent and powerful
  earthquakes.

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Japan

• Physical constraints
• 16 of the land is habitable.
• Fight against the scarcity of space
• Long narrow valleys.
• Concentration of agricultural productivity.
• Efficient management of existing agricultural
  land.

Hokkaido
Honshu
Kanto Plain
Nobi Plain
Yamato Plain
Shikoku
Kyushu
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Very Mountainous Little Arable Land
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Mt. Fuji
Largest mountain in Japan. Not an active volcano
(last erupted in 1707)
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Vegetation
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Japan Vegetation

• 2/3 of the entire country is forested and the
  Japanese make use of wood in almost endless ways

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Igawa Town on the Izumo Plain
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Rice Farmers FarmhouseOkutsu Town, Okayama
Prefecture
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Terrace Farming of Rice
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The Japanese Farm the Sea
TokyoFish Market
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Raw Materials and Resources
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Natural Resources
Less abundant natural resources than China.
Q7 What will this force Japan to do?
Trade with other countries for what it needs
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Raw Materials
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Taiwan
Now a free-market, multiparty democracy Home of
23 million well-traveled, well-educated, and
industrious people.
Chungyang Range
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Taiwan

• 1. About 100 miles from the coast of southeast
  China.
• 2. Similar constraints to neighboring countries
• 60 of the territory is composed of mountains.
• Chungyang Range covers about 50 the land area.
• 25 usable for agriculture.
• 3. Bulk of the population lives in the western
  coastal plain.

Matsu
China
Taiwan
Formosa Strait
Quemoy
Chungyang Range
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In a group of two.

• Answer the following questions on a sheet of
  paper to turn in
• 1. How does East Asias physical geography shape
  its historical philosophy of isolation?
• 2. What are some similarities between each of
  these regions?
• 3. What are some differences between each of
  these regions?