Chapter 6-China
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- What are the two main deserts?
- Taklimakan and Gobi
- What are Hong Kong and Macau important for?
- both cities are centers for manufactoring, trade, and finance
- What is the Free Enterprise System?
- a system that the government allows people to choose their own jobs how much the want to sell them for and where they want their buisness
- What are two natural diasters that occur in China?
- floods and earthquakes
- What is invest?
- to put money into a company in China
- What is a fault
- a crack in the earth's crust
- The largest plateau is China is called what?
- Plateau of Tibet
- Mountains cover about how much of China.
- one-third
- What is the Turban Depression?
- a ditch like bowl that is partly filled with salt water that is below sea level
- As a result of the changes in the economy what has happened to it?
- the economy has boomed
- What surrounds deserts on China?
- mountains
- What do they provide for China?
- transportation routs and rich soil
- The largest what is also in China?
- plateau
- Why is the Yellow river called "China's Sorrow"
- because it caused floods and caused many lives
- What is a communist state?
- the government controls the economy and society as a whole
- It is the ______ largest country in the world.
- third
- What are China's three main rivers?
- Yangtze, Yellow, and Xi
- How has China's economic growth affected China's envoronment?
- is has caused pollution to the water and the air
- What is a dike?
- build up of high banks of sail along a river
- What is the "one-country, two-systems" pledgs?
- China's promise to allow western freedoms and capilization to exist side by side with communism