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48 Cards in this Set
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What is the main cause of air pollution in China?
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use of coal power plants |
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What demonstrates that pollution conditions are some of the worst in the world in China?
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9 of 10 of the world’s worst polluted cities |
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What is causing desertification and what is desertification?
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Being caused by deforestation and is when arableland turns to desert |
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What is causing water pollution?
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Dead animal dumping and untreated sewage |
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What actions are making water pollution in China worse?
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Dumping of dead animals |
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Why are the oceans also becoming polluted? (what flows into them?)
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Polluted rivers flowing into them |
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What type of ships are causing overfishing around Asia?
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Factory ships |
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If overfishing continues like it has, what will happen to the oceans and fisheries and by what year?
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world fisheries could collapse by 2050 |
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What are the countries of East Asia listed in the notes?
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China, Mongolia, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea,South Korea |
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What is the formal name of China?
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People’s Republic of China |
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What is the relative land area and population of China?
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80% of land of East Asia, largest population ofworld 1.3 billion |
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What 2 countries are bigger than China?
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Russia and Canada |
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What is the land area and comparative population of Mongolia?
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13% of East Asia's land, less than 1% of China'spopulation |
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How is the population of Mongolia described?
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world's most sparsely populated |
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What is the population of China and its % of the world?
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1.357 billion, 25% of world |
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Comparatively how many people in the world are Chinese?
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1 in 5 people |
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What does “Chinese” mean?
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person of the Middle Kingdom |
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What happened in Tiananmen Square and when?
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June 1989 students demonstrated for Fifth Modernization |
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What is the Fifth Modernization?
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democratic reforms and political freedom |
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What were the 4 Modernizations?
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Agriculture, industry, defense, science and technology |
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Who was Tank Man? What did he do and why?
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anonymous Chinese man; stood up to column oftanks rolling into Tiananmen Square |
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Why did Tank Man become a symbol of the 20th century?
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he showed that the individual was more powerfulthan the group |
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How did the Chinese government react to the student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square?
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gov’t declared them to be dissidents (politicalenemies) and opened fire on them killing 2,000 and wounding hundreds |
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What has been the Chinese government’s attitude/actions towards the events in Tiananmen Square?
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to deny it occurred and continue to repress thefreedom of people |
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What does the government of China continue to do regarding citizen freedoms to this day?
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repression of freedoms has continued through topresent |
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What was China’s one-child policy?
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policy to slow growth of population with couplesallowed 1 child |
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When did China’s one-child policy begin?
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1979 |
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What has happened recently to the one-child policy? Is this going to result in Chinese children having siblings? Why not? (video and discussion)
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has been relaxed and population is starting togrow again; no, tradition is now calling for one–child households |
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What will the current generation of Chinese males and females experience due to the one-child policy?
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Males experience difficulty finding someone tomarry; females may experience kidnapping due to scarcity |
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How has the one-child policy caused a shift in the geography of the Chinese workforce?
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mostly migrant male workers have come eastsending money home to the west |
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How does discrimination occur geographically in China? (class discussion and video)
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people born in the country are not allowed to go to school in the cities |
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Where do the majority of Chinese people live geographically?
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70% live on 45% of the land in 12 EasternProvinces |
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How large are Chinese cities?
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30–40 Chinese cities have populations of morethan 1 million |
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What traditional practices does Chinese healthcare use?
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acupuncture and cupping |
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When, under whom, and in what kind of government was the People’s Republic of China created?
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1949 under Mao Zedong as a communist country |
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What happened to the economy under Mao and in recent history?
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tried to plan economy, has become more relaxedand fastest growing since 1980s |
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What % of Chinese farm what and why?
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60% of Chinese farm mostly rice due to lack ofarable land |
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What % of Chinese land is arable?
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13% |
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How much has the amount of arable land shrunk? During what period? Because of what 3 reasons?
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shrunk 6% between 2009–2019 due to urbanization,industrialization, and desertification |
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What is crowding in China’s cities causing?
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air and water pollution |
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Why do workers not settle down in the cities?
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their families are back in the west |
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What has resulted from the large, drifting workforce?
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Crime and a corrupt police force |
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What was Tibet and what happened to it?
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independent country was led by Buddhistreligious leader taken over by China |
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Who was the specific leader of Tibet when China took over?
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Dalai Lama |
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When did China take over Tibet?
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1950 |
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How has China violated Tibetan human rights?
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restricted practice of Buddhism and encouragedChinese migration making Tibetans minorities in their own country |
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What has happened with the Dalai Lama, Tibet, China, and India? What may the consequences be? (discussion and video)
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in exile in India; will not reincarnate if notallowed to return to Tibet due to Chinese rule |
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What has China encouraged in Tibet to affect the population and Tibetans?
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encouraged Chinese migration making Tibetansminorities in their own country |
