Chapter 24

Question 1

A large land mass that is a major part of a continent.

Answer 1

Subcontinent

Question 2

Land that can produce crops.

Answer 2

Arable Land

Question 3

Winds that blow across the region at certain times of the year.

Answer 3

Monsoons

Question 4

Raised to be sold for money on the world market.

Answer 4

Cash Crop

Question 5

Sea farming

Answer 5

Aquaculture

Question 6

Quality of life. Determined by how much oil an area has.

Answer 6

Standard of Living

Question 7

Formed when the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia. Contains the tallest peaks in the world. Everest is in this chain.

Answer 7

Himalayan Mountains

Question 8

Provides water and transportation. Flows 3,915 miles to the East China Sea and is the only river in East Asia that is deep enough for cargo ships to sail on.

Answer 8

Yangzi

Question 9

Provides water and transportation. More than 400 million people live off the banks of this river. It runs through a fertile region called the North China Plain.

Answer 9

Huang He

Question 10

One of the two most important rivers in the region of South Asia. Starts high in the Himalayan Mountains. Flows in a wide sweeping arc across Northern India.

Answer 10

Ganges

Question 11

One of the two most important rivers in the region of South Asia. Starts high in the Himalayan Mountains. Flows westward from the Himalayan Mountains into the country of Pakistan.

Answer 11

Indus

Question 12

Some of the most fertile soil in the world lies along this river. When this river floods it deposits rich soil along its banks. So more people live here than in anywhere else in the region. It begins in Turkey and makes its way south. It combines with the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab Channel in Iraq. This channel empties into the Persian Gulf, and gives Iraq its only outlet to the sea.

Answer 12

Tigris

Question 13

Some of the most fertile soil in the world lies along this river. When this river floods it deposits rich soil along its banks. So more people live here than in anywhere else in the region. It begins in Turkey and makes its way south. It combines with the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab Channel in Iraq. This channel empties into the Persian Gulf, and gives Iraq its only outlet to the sea.

Answer 13

Euphrates

Question 14

How were the Himalayas, Mount Everest, and the Tibetan Plateau formed?

Answer 14

The Indian subcontinent collided with Asia. India broke off from Africa.

Question 15

How did the islands of Japan come into existence?

Answer 15

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Question 16

Where are most of Asia’s people concentrated? Why are they concentrated there?

Answer 16

Eastern Coast / Lowland Coastal Plain / North China Plain / because the Huang He runs through it and provides fertile land.

Question 17

What two rivers formed China’s “cradle of civilization”?

Answer 17

Yangzi and Huang He

Question 18

Where is Asia’s “Dry World”? Why is it known as such?

Answer 18

Southwestern and Central Asia / because they contain some of the largest deserts on Earth.

Question 19

What two rivers contained humanity’s “cradle of civilization”?

Answer 19

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 20

Why do the populations in both mainland southeast Asia and India concentrate in small river valleys?

Answer 20

Because there are lots of Mountains and no where else to build a house they also have a lot of natural resources.

Question 21

Provide at least one example of how people have managed to adapt to an almost exclusively hostile desert environment in the Middle East.

Answer 21

They grow plants that can grow in the desert and drilled and dug wells and irrigation canals as well. The plants have really long roots to get to water.

Question 22

Why are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers both a blessing and a curse?

Answer 22

The Huang He can overflow / flood its banks during monsoons, but provide water for farming and other things.

Question 23

What does the Yellow River get its name from?

Answer 23

The brownish yellow dirt that is blown by the desert winds.

Question 24

How do China’s monsoons operate? Are they the same year-round? What are the differences?

Answer 24

Seasonal / In Summer, Pacific Ocean winds blow west toward the Asian Continent and cause hot humid weather and heavy rains. In Winter, the winds blow toward the east and bring cooler, drier air to the continent / In some parts of China they produce dust storms that last for days.

Question 25

What are some ways the people of Asia have adapted to annual monsoons?

Answer 25

The school calendar revolves around monsoons they put their house on bamboo stilts.

Question 26

Why are monsoons both something positive and negative, from a human perspective?

Answer 26

They provide fertile farmland, drinking, and water to drink. But also cause massive destruction: flooding, sand storms, and dry dusty air.

Question 27

Why are southeast Asia’s rainforests something both positive and negative, from a human perspective?

Answer 27

They provide oxygen but doesn’t keep them safe from the typhoons.

Question 28

Generally, no matter where a person goes in Asia, what food can invariably be found as part of a meal?

Answer 28

Rice

Question 29

What are some of east Asia’s natural resources? What do you notice about their distribution and where people live? What do you notice about their distribution and where people don’t live?

Answer 29

Hydroelectric Power
Iron
Copper
Gold
Silver
Phosphates
Coal
Petroleum
Lead
Nickel 
Tungsten
Tin

I think that they are mainly distributed around the Southeast area of China along with some in the Northeast China area too. That is where people mainly live because they need the natural resources.

Where people don’t live, in the deserts and such, there are not many natural resources.

Question 30

In what way is south and southeastern Asian farming like a recent trend in Africa’s farming?

Answer 30

Cash crops

Question 31

How do many people in east Asia make a living?

Answer 31

Fishing / Selling Fish

Question 32

What is a staple of east Asian food?

Answer 32

Fish

Question 33

Where is most of the world’s oil concentrated? How does oil relate to a nation’s standard of living? How can Country A have a demonstrably higher standard of living than Country B if both possess substantial oil reserves?

Answer 33

Southwest Asia / The less oil you have the lower your standard of living is the higher the oil the higher the standard of living / Country A has the materials to get the oil out and sell it but Country B does not have the materials to get it out.