4.3 Flashcards
(43 cards)
1
Q
支流
A
Tributaries
2
Q
長江
A
Chang jiang
3
Q
黃河
A
Huang he
4
Q
珠江
A
Zhu jiang
5
Q
河盤/流域
A
River basin
6
Q
地勢
A
Relief
7
Q
東
A
East
8
Q
西
A
West
9
Q
季風氣候
A
Monsoon climate
10
Q
季風
A
Monsoon
11
Q
向岸風
A
Onshore wind
12
Q
離岸風
A
Offshore wind
13
Q
乾旱地區
A
Arid region
14
Q
半乾旱地區
A
Semi-arid region
15
Q
半濕潤地區
A
Semi-humid region
16
Q
濕潤地區
A
Humid region
17
Q
沿海地帶
A
Coastal area
18
Q
回收（？）
A
Reclaming
19
Q
地陷
A
Land subsidence
20
Q
海水倒灌
A
Saltwater intrusion
21
Q
What are the three major rivers in china?
A
Chang Jiang zhu jiang and huang he
22
Q
What is the name of the area drained by a river and it’s tributaries?
A
River basin
23
Q
The three major rivers flow from where to where?
A
West to east
24
Q
What is the relationship of precipitation of coastal area and inland areas?
A
The coastal areas in china receive more precipitation than inland areas
25
Where the dry regions are founded?
Mainly in the north and the north-west
26
The amount of water resources in china decreases from where to where ?How is the distribution ?
South-east to north-west uneven
27
What has been happening to the water cycle of china?
Cutting trees on a large scale
Building Dams
Reclaiming lakes
Overdrawing groundwater for human activities
28
How does land subsidence occurs?
Without the groundwater to give support to the land above it and the soil collapses and the land sinks
29
水份
Moisture
30
When the slow of a channel becomes gentle the water flow slows down sand and soil in the river tend to be deposited on the river bed what is this called
Silting
31
What is the result of silting
River bed become shallow
32
What is the Phenomenon that treees are cut on a large scale
Deforestation
33
Without trees what will decrease more water flows over the land
Infiltration
34
What is overgrazing
The livestock eats up the grass that is protecting the soil
35
What is the phenomenon crops grow intensive lin slopes will cause the soil to become poor
Over-cultivation
36
Both overgrazing and over-cultivation may cause ____?when the soil is washed into the channel what become more serious
Soil erosion silting
37
Many lakes in china have been used for freshwater fish ponds or?
Reclaimed for farming and settlements
38
The surface of much of the land is covered with _____when rain falls it cannot infiltration underground so it become
Concrete Overland flow
39
How can we eased flooding problem in two ways
Regulating river flow
| Increasing the holding capacity of river channels
40
What are the measures taken by china to ease flooding
Building Dams giving up farmland and fish ponds
| Planting trees and controlling terracing
41
The building of the Dan is dam has created a big reservoir behind it what can the reservoir do
Store water from the upstream areas when there is heavy rain in the upper course the dam can hold and slow down the river water flowing downstream
42
What are the advantages of the project?
Control flooding in the Chang Jiang basin
Promoting tourism
Improving water transport
43
What are the disadvantages of the project
People upstream have to be relocated
| Collapse of dam will flood the downstream area
