L19 Geography of Ancient China

Match the following

• Invaders

• Inner China

• Lots of Agriculture

• Outer China

• Permanent homes

• Inner China

• Built Great Wall

• Outer China

• Nomads

• Inner China

Match the following about climate in China

• Yellows and Yangtze rivers start here

• Chang Jiang Basin

• Outer China

  "Roof of the World"

• Outer China

• Yangtse river flows here

• Tibetan Plateau

• Gobi and Taklimakan Desert

• North China Plain

• Yellow river flows through here

• Tibetan Plateau

Match the following Vocabulary (you can use your slides).

• light fertile soil that yields bountiful crops

• isolated

• Place where water can be found (usually in a desert)

• Oasis

• the average weather conditions in a region

• Tributary

• to set apart from other people or things

• Climate

• a stream or river that feeds into a larger river or lake

• Loess

Which of the following is NOT true about the Tibetan Plateau?

• Travel to other regions was extremely difficult.

• The weather was too cold to grow crops

• Winters were extremely cold and summers were too hot.

Use your notes to describe Inner China.

Nomads with livestock who roamed the Gobi or Taklimakan deserts need to settle near an ​ (a)   ​ in order to be able to raise their animals.

• Oasis
• the Mountains
• The plateau

True or False: In the Northeastern Plain, the Liao and Sungari rivers freeze and are used as roads in the winter.

• True

• False

True or false: The Huang He (Yellow river) carries silt from the desert, which turns the water green and gives the river it's name.

• True

• False

Silt from the ​ (a)   helps ​ (b)   the ​ (c)   for famers, which helps them grow heathy ​ (d)  

• Yellow River
• fertilize
• soil
• crops
• Liao River
• Ghengis River
• poison
• mountains
• forest
• pigs