Exam 10: East Asia

Victoria's deepwater port is on the interior side of Hong Kong Island and is protected from the sea,allowing ship access to an extensive sheltered harbor area.

Taiwan's push for good __________ and technical skills for its citizens has paid off in the form of high incomes and an industrialized economy.

Nationalists,Communists,and Japan conducted a three-way war over the control of China.

China has about __________ ethnic groups,with Han Chinese being the largest.

A series of statements by China's political leaders in the 1990's suggested that in order for China to enjoy a more mature form of socialism,greater __________ was needed.

The North China Plain typically produces a food surplus because of the low demand from the relatively small population of the region,making it an important agricultural region of China.

The form of Communism promoted by Mao Zedong was the same as the type of Communism practiced in the Soviet Union.

The city of Hong Kong grew from a ly sized city of about three hundred fifty thousand in the early 1980s to a city of ten and half million by 2010,and is still growing.

There are two major river systems that provide fresh water to the vast agricultural regions of the central part of China proper - the __________ and the __________.

In addition to its position as a buffer state between India and the Han Chinese heartland of China proper,Tibet is becoming more important to the government of Beijing and the business people in Shenzhen and Shanghai.Why is this?

What are some of the consequences of Japan having a declining population?

Up to a million Tibetans died during the __________ campaign and thousands of monasteries were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Japan,with all but 3 percent of the population being ethnically Japanese,resembles a nation-state where people of a common heritage and aspirations hold to a unified government.

During Mao's time,there was little concern for __________,but in recent decades,China has implemented measures to deal with this issue.

Since it was already __________ and had an __________ with __________ skilled artisan traditions,the road to Japan's __________ moved quickly.

In 1997,Hong Kong became associated with __________ as a __________,but remained __________ capitalist and democratic in its operations.

Tibet's theocratic political system established the Dalai Lama as both the head of state and the religious leader of the Tibetan people.

Most of China's population lives in its eastern region,called __________,with type C climates,fresh water,and good soils.

The Japanese archipelago,which has more than three thousand islands,is just north of 40° latitude.

Explain the relationship between the physical geography of East Asia and its human geography.