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20 Cards in this Set
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East Asia consists of which countries?
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Includes China, Japan, North and south Korea and Taiwan
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What is the Tectonic activity in Japan?
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Risk of Earthquakes and volcanoes
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What happened on march 11th in east Asia?
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Tsunami which damages 3 nuclear power plants and there were radioactive leaks from the containers
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what is the climate of east Asia
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Dry, mid latitude and continental
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china is roughly the same size of which land area
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United states
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the north china plain is east Asia's
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Anthropogenic landscape and core region
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what is another name for the Huang he
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yellow river
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what is the significance of the Yangtze river
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1/3 of china's populations lives in the Yangtze river basin
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what dam was built on the Yangtze river
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the Three gorges dam
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characteristics of the Tibetan plateau
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average elevation is 15000 feet.
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what is a huge contributor of pollution in china.
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e-waste
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what was created to block dust storms
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the great green wall
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what is the population in china
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1.3 billion
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what is the cause of increasing dust storms in east asia
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Deforestation
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who was the creator of the great leap forward
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mao zedong
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what were the impacts of the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
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20-30 million people died
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what is "the great firewall" of china
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censorship for the internet and the 50 cent party
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what was the cause of the expansion of the Japanizes empire
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Nanking massacre of 1937
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what is the significance of the 38th parallel
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this is the line that divided north and south Korea
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