Quiz chap 7 & 8 Flashcards
(95 cards)
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Which state is the second most populated state on earth?
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China
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What is the popualtion of China?
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1.40 billion
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What is the area density of China? What is its rank in terms of land area?
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Area of 9.6M km2 and third largest in area after Canada
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What is the annual precipitation in the south-eastern part?
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Above 1000mm
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Which region is at the same latitude as hudson bay in Canada?
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Manchuria, the northernmost part of China
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What are the three regions China can be divided into?
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Western China, North-East and South East
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What is the landscape in western China?
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numerous mountains and deserts
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What is the annual precipitation in western china?
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The region receives less than 250mm
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What is the climate in western China
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Dry and continental
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True or False: Western China has a lot of farming resourcess
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False, they are weaker
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What is the population in western China?
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It is sparsely populated and has several ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Uyghur, Mongols, Tibetans
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What is the population like in estern China?
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It is densely populated with a relatively homogenous population of Han Chinese
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What is the climate in Eastern China?
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temperate or subtropical
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What are the farming conditions in eastern China?
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good
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What is the dominant landscape in North eastern China?
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river plain
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What is the precipitation in north eastern china?
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less than 1m per year
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What is the dominant farming type in north eastern China?
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dry cereals such as wheat to make noodles
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Why is there more precipitation in the South-East China?
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Due to the summer Monsoon
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What does the summer monsoon allow south-east China to grow?
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rice
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True or False, the way chinese write are the same but the way it is read is different?
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True
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What are the two spoken languages in China and where are they spoken?
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Madarin in the area of Beijing and cantonese in the south of china like in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
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What are the Chinese big cities?
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Beijing, the capital of China
Shanghai, the largest and most developing
Hong Kong, a former British colony that reverted the country in 997
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How many urban center with more than 1M people does China have?
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over 160
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What is the most ambitious engineering projects in the world?
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The Three gorge Dam
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Where is the hydroelectric dam located?
on the Chang Jiang river
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What was the impact of the creation of the Dam?
1.3M residents had to be relocated
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Since when is the three gorge dam functional?
2012
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How many chinese are users of the internet?
more than 1050M people in 2023
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True or False: China is the largest market for mobile phone?
True
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How many chiense have phone subscrition?
1733.01M in 2021
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What are the consequences of the one child policy?
There were 118 boys for 100 girls in China in 2005 compared to the natural ratio of 105:100. In 2020, China has estimated 34M more men than women
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Where does China stand in the ranking of energy consumer?
It stands at the top, surpassing USA
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How many percent of china's electricty is generated by burning coal?
64%
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China is the largest CO2 emitter with how many of the worlds total percent?
30% in 2018
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China is becoming the world leader in developing cleaner ways to produce energy. Which clean energy do they use?
hydroelectricity, wind power, and solar energy
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How many gigawatts in production capacity for wind energy has China added in 2015?
30.8 gigawatts
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Describe the major earthquake that took place in China in 2008.
earthquake of magnitude 8.0, killed more than 69,000 people in the Chinese province of Sichuan
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The ten deadlieast natrual disasters occured in Asia. How many of them occured in China?
6 of them occured in China, 3 floods and 3 earthquakes
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Describe the Great Wall of China.
It was built over a period of more than 2000 years by different Chinese emperors to protect the Empire from possible northern intrusion. It is not a single structure but rather a series of different more or lass connected structures. It is about 6300km long
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What is the national symbol of China?
The Giant Panda
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Describe the Giant Panda.
it is a vegetarian animal. As a result of the farming, deforstation, and other developements, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas. In march 2015, the population of the giant panda has reached 1864
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True or false: Tibet wants to regain its independance.
True. it has distinct people, language, and religion
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Who is the former political and still spiritual leader of Tibet who lives in exile in Dharamsala, northern India?
The Dalai Lama
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What is the turkic minority group?
Uyghurs, since 2015, more than 1 million of them have been detained in reeducation camps
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Which country has the lowest popualtion density on earth?
Mongolia, about the size of Quebec has a population density of 2 inhabitants/km2
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What is the landscape in mongolia?
It is a coutry of steppes and deserts, including the Gobi desert, one of the largest on earth
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What is a fun fact about Taiwan?
It has a chinese popualtion but remained out of communist China after the 1949 revolution
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WHen were the koreas divided?
After the second world war
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Describe north and south korea.
North korea: ruled by a communist dictator, is extremely poor
South korea: has a prospering economy
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What is the most developped region of the country?
Japan
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What is the capital of Japan and the largest urban center on earth?
Tokyo with 38M inhabitants
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How is the rainy season over southern Asia called?
The Monsoon
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When does the Monsoon start and how long does it last?
It starts in june and lasts four months, it gradually moves from the south-east to the northwest (cities include INdia, bangladeshand a little in pakistan)
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Which religion is a blend of practices that evolved over 3000 years?
Hindu religion
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What are the most striking aspects of Hindu faith?
The sanctity of cows, the caste system, the dots on the forehead, ritual baths in holy rivers, the dowry and reincarnation belief
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Which river is the most sacred river of the hindus?
The gange
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Where does the Gange river begin and where does it end?
Starts in the Himalaya and ends in a gigantic delta close to the bay of bengal
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Where are the Mt. Everest and Himalaya?
In Nepal
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What is the altitude of Mt. Everest?
8848m
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True or False: Nepal is a rich developing country.
False, it is a poor developing country
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True or False: the three most important rivers of South Asia all have their source in the Himalayas.
True
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What are the names of the three most importanat rivers in South Asia?
Brahmaputra, Ganges, which gives rise to the largest river delta on earth which is a fertile, densely populated area located in India and Bangladesh. The third river is the Inuds river which brings fertility and life to the desert country of Pakistan
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Describe the four most important city of India
Mumbai: buisiness center and most cosmopolitan city
Kolkata: old british capital and education center
Delhi: the capital of the country
Bengaluru: world major computer and programming hub
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What is the comparasion between India and Canada and Quebec in terms of proportions
India a little more than 2 times the size of Quebec
India roughly 1/3 of Canada
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What is the population of India? What proportion of the world's popualtion does it represent?
1.4 billion which represents 1/6 of the worlds population
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How many years would it take for one person to visit all indian villages if it can visit five in one day?
300 years
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What are the two muslim countries around India?
Pakistan and Bangladesh
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Which country has the highest overall population density on earth?
Bangladesh with 1150 inhabitants/km2
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In what year was the independance of India and Partition with pakistan?
1947
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In what year did Bangladesh seperate from Pakistan?
1971
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Who is considered the father of the nation in India and why?
Mahatma Gandhi, because he used non-violence on India's road to freedom
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Which states of India share a border with Pakistan?
Rajasthan, Punjab, Kashmir
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Where does most of the Thar desert lie?
In rajasthan
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What is the climate like in the Thar desert?
The average maximum daily temperature occurs in May wit degrees. Yearly avergae precipitation of 165 mm
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What is the holy city of India? Where is it located?
Amritsar, on the border of pakistan and and India
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Where is Punjab located and what is the population that live there?
It is located around the holy city of Amritsar and is the country of the Sikhs, a group of industrious and wealthy people with a distinctive religion and culture that are well represented among Canada's population
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Which region is a disputed territory administered by three countries and what are those three countries? Which cities does it include?
Kashmir is a disputed territory administered by India, Pakistan, and China. It inlcudes Srinagar in India and Gilgit in Pakistan
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Explain the Kashmir conflict.
It started after the partition of India in 1947 and escalated into three wars between Pakistan and India. Indian Kashmiris, os a Muslim majority want independance or unification with Pakistan
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What is the second highest mountain on earth and what is its height?
K2 in pakistan, part of the Karakoram Range. Height of 8611m
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What is the rank of the India in terms of important islamic countries?
3rd most important after Indonesia in Pakistan, even if it has a small percentage of muslim population
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Where is the Taj Mahal located?
In the indian city of Agra
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What is the Taj Mahal?
Not a mosque but a sumptuous marble mausoleum to house the tomb of the emperor favorite wife
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What has been a challenge in India?
Access to safe sanitation. in 1990, only 18% of the indian population had a toilette, in 2020 71% of the population had a toilette
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How many percent of households had one or more mobile device in 2012? and how many had a toilet?
60% had a mobile device
36% had a toilette
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How many films does the Indian movie industry produced in 2019?
2000
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Bollywood, the Hindi language Mumbai based industry made how many films in 2017?
375
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How many years does the bad air quality in Delhi take off from someone's life?
10 years
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What is the largest slum area in Asia?
Dharavi
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How many people live crammed in Dharavi?
1M
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What is the ratio of men to women in Delhi?
775 women for 1000 men.
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Which island is home to many religions, ethnic groups and languages?
Sri Lanka
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When did the civil war end in Sri Lanka? How many people were killed during the war?
2009, 60,000 to 100,000 people were killed during the 26 years of war
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What are the main religion with the percentages present in Sri Lanka?
70% buddhism
13% hinduism
10% Islam
7% Christianity
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What is the lowest-lying country in the world?
The republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean
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The maldives are expecting a sea level rise of how many meters and lose how many percent of its land by 2100?
1.5 feet and lose 77% of its land
