Exam 9: East Asia

Because it often suffers drought problems,China does not have to deal with any flooding problems.

Daytime and nighttime temperatures in East Asia's dry interior can vary by as much as 100°F.

Over the past three decades,in the wake of market-oriented economic reforms,China's agricultural sectors have become more productive,especially in the supplying of local goods.

In North Korea the communists have pushed agricultural security at the expense of military strength.

Which of the following was NOT a Chinese invention?

Beijing was once called:

Which of the following accurately reflects the issue of water in China in recent years?

The Opium Wars began as an effort by China to prevent merchants from what country from trading opium for prized Chinese goods?

Rural laborers constituted the Chinese Communist Party's main base of support in its struggle for control during the 1930s and 1940s.

Which of the following represents the main legacy of the Qin dynasty (400 to 221 B.C.E. ),which it relied upon to overthrow the feudal system in China and extend the monarch's authority into the countryside?

Modern Taiwan provides an illustration of how maintaining environmental quality is difficult under what conditions?

Which statement is true of Taiwan?

Which of the following areas has the lowest population density?

Which of the following is NOT true of China?

The economic development plan that relies heavily on the production of goods for sale abroad is called:

What Chinese leader initiated reforms in the early 1980s that shifted toward a free market economy while maintaining the Communist Party's political control?

Japan's recovery is touted as an "economic miracle."

The group that took power in Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century,following the arrival of U.S.naval vessels in Tokyo Bay,were known as the:

The North China Plain might be considered the "breadbasket" of East Asia.

The tectonic collision of the Indian subcontinent with the southern edge of Eurasia produced: