L19 Geography of Ancient China

Match the following

• Permanent homes

• Inner China

• Invaders

• Inner China

• Nomads

• Outer China

• Built Great Wall

• Outer China

• Lots of Agriculture

• Inner China

Match the following about climate in China

• Gobi and Taklimakan Desert

• Outer China

• Outer China

  "Roof of the World"

• Tibetan Plateau

• Yangtse river flows here

• North China Plain

• Yellow river flows through here

• Chang Jiang Basin

• Yellows and Yangtze rivers start here

• Tibetan Plateau

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

• to set apart from other people or things

• isolated

• light fertile soil that yields bountiful crops

• Oasis

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

• Climate

• the average weather conditions in a region

• Loess

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

• Tributary

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