World Geography - East Asia

Front 1

Many of the varied landforms in China, particularly the large mountain ranges, have been the work of a constant collision between Eurasia and what ‘subcontinent’?

Back 1

South Asia

Front 2

Which of the following provides the most accurate representation of East Asia’s landforms?

Back 2

A series of steps descending from west to east

Front 3

What is the name of the primary river on the North China Plain?

Back 3

Huang He

Front 4

Which of the following occurs during East Asia’s winter monsoon?

Back 4

Cold dry air blows east and south through East Asia

Front 5

Which of the following physical features has the least influence on the climate of East Asia’s western dry zone?

Back 5

Pacific Ocean

Front 6

The extreme variation in daily and seasonal temperatures in East Asia’s western zone is a climate characteristic exhibited by which of the following?

Back 6

Continental interior

Front 7

What is the main difference between the climates of Japan and Taiwan?

Back 7

Japan is much colder than Taiwan

Front 8

Which of the following describes the early land use system in north China that the textbook described as feudal?

Back 8

A militarized landholding class controlled large estates on which most of the population worked

Front 9

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

Back 9

Well-trained bureaucracy

Front 10

Among the following, which represents an effect of Confucian ideology in China?

Back 10

Farmers faced a heavy tax burden

Front 11

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

Back 11

Britain

Front 12

What dynasty ruled China when it was carved up by European powers and lost its preeminence in East Asia by losing the Sino-Japanese War?

Back 12

Qing

Front 13

Which of the following groups constituted the Chinese Communist Party’s most important base of support?

Back 13

Rural laborers

Front 14

Which of the following issues briefly provided common ground between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party during the late 1930s?

Back 14

Japanese invasion of China

Front 15

Which of the following was not a result of China’s Great Leap Forward in the 1950s?

Back 15

China’s economy boomed, resulting in the admission to the WTO

Front 16

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

Back 16

Deng Xiaoping

Front 17

Which of the following inspired Japan’s imperial effort in East Asia during the first half of the 1900s?

Back 17

Lack of domestic natural resources

Front 18

Approximately what percentage of the world’s total population resides in China?

Back 18

20 percent

Front 19

Which of the countries of East Asia has the lowest population growth rate?

Back 19

Japan

Front 20

Which of the following is the most accurate characterization of the Japanese model of government-guided free-market economy that served it so successfully in the decades following World War II?

Back 20

A strong bureaucracy provides financial assistance, advice, and protection from foreign competition to domestic industrial enterprises

Front 21

What two East Asian states use Japan’s model of government-guided capitalism?

Back 21

South Korea and Taiwan

Front 22

The 1997 financial crisis in what world region, which purchased 45 percent of Japan’s exports and is a primary recipient of Japanese foreign investment, was a major factor in Japan’s recent economic stumble?

Back 22

Southeast Asia

Front 23

In the post–World War II period, which East Asian country did NOT become a centrally planned Communist state?

Back 23

Taiwan

Front 24

Which of the following characterizes the land reform strategy enacted by the Chinese Communist Party when it first came to power in 1949?

Back 24

Divided large estates of the aristocracy among landless farmers

Front 25

What policy did the Communist government initiate a few years after coming to power in order to expand food production to satisfy the growing numbers of industrial workers?

Back 25

Small farms were combined into large cooperative farms

Front 26

Which of the following characterizes China’s regional development policy during the first two-and-a-half decades of Communist leadership?

Back 26

Each region was encouraged to develop agricultural and industrial sectors independent of other regions

Front 27

Which of the following is defined as the ability of a country to supply basic food to all the people consistently?

Back 27

Food security

Front 28

Which is true regarding the effects of the original SEZs and development zones in China?

Back 28

They have brought about increased migration and outside investment

Front 29

The rapid economic growth of what region in China has earned it the nickname of “the golden coast”?

Back 29

Southeast

Front 30

The term floating population represents which group of people in China?

Back 30

Jobless or underemployed rural people who have migrated to the cities without official permission

Front 31

In Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, approximately what percentage of the population lives in cities?

Back 31

80 percent

Front 32

Which of the following is a reason that the Japanese are resistant to immigration?

Back 32

Japan is fearful of the impact foreigners will have on its culture

Front 33

With which of the following groups do more than nine out of ten people in China identify themselves?

Back 33

Han

Front 34

According to the textbook, what is the main reason the Chinese government has moved hundreds of Han settlers into the far northwest zones of China?

Back 34

To weaken the power of the indigenous minority groups