China - Cities and Rivers Flashcards
What is the longest river of China?
The Yangtze River.
What city is at the mouth of the Yangtze River?
Shanghai.
What is China’s “Front door.”
The Yangtze River. This refers to trade, visitors, et cetera.
What is a very long-time issue with the Yangtze River?
Flooding.
What is the Siyang or Pearl River?
Another river in Southern China. Hong Kong is on the river.
The Pearl River flows through an area that has ___.
Farming and factories.
China has almost completed building the huge ___.
Three Gorges Dam.
To build the Three Gorges Dam, many people ___.
Will lose their homes.
China’s largest city is ___.
Shanghai.
To build the Three Gorges Dam, many people ___.
Will lose their homes.
Commerce in Hong Kong can be stopped by ___.
Typhoons.
Hong Kong, like Rio de Janeiro, has limited ___.
Usable space.
In 1999 Hong Kong ___.
Became part of China.
Two Chinese cities very connected with the Global Economy are Shanghai and ___.
Hong Kong.
China has almost completed building the huge _____.
Three Gorges Dam.
