Physical Geography of East Asia

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Physical Geography of East Asia
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Satellite View of China
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The East Asian Realm

• Physical landforms
• Q1 What accounts for these complex landforms?
• Limited flat land
• Q2 What are some solutions to this problem?

- Tectonic Activity
Terracing and irrigation. Maximize agricultural
productivity.
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China

• The People's Republic of China (PRC)
• Est. in 1949
• China is ruled by the Communist Party of China
  under a single-party system

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Chinas Geography

• 1. 3rd largest country in the world.
• 2. Comparable to the US
• 3. 65 of the country is mountainous.
• 4. Arable land represents 12 of the national
  territory as opposed to 25 for the United
  States.
• 5. Per capita (0.086 hectare) is well below the
  world average.

China
United States
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Q3 What is this type of agriculture called?
AND, why do you think that it was developed?
Terraced farming rugged terrain/topography/mounta
inous
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Bodies of Water
Amur River
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
Huang-He River
Yangtze River
Pacific Ocean
Xi River
SouthChinaSea
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The Yellow River!
Huang He (Yellow River). -Floods
frequently. -Extremely polluted -Industrializat
ion along the river
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The Yangtze River
Chang Jiang River (Yangtze) -Flood of 1998 left
14 million homeless. -Home to the Three Gorges
Dam -Created a reservoir that made 1,000
towns and villages disappear
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The West River and the Pearl River

• Xi Jang (West River)
• Important mineral resources are along this river

• Zhu Jiang (Pearl River)
• Most productive and sustainable ecosystem in the
  world.

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China

• Q4 What is the name of each river (One point
  per name)

1. Huang He (Yellow River)
2. Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
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• Xi Jiang (West River) OR Zhu Jiang (Pearl River)

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Mountains Peaks
Altai Mts.
Greater Khingan
Tian Shan
Kunlun Shan
Himalayan Mts.
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Kunlun Mountains

• Located in the west
• Where two of Chinas great rivers begin (Yellow
  and Yangtze)

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Deserts Plateaus
Gobi Desert
Taklamakan Desert
Tibetan Plateau
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• Mongolian Plateau
• Most who live here are sheep herders and raise
  livestock
• Tibetan Plateau
• Averages more than 3,000 feet above sea level
• Gobi Desert
• Stretches more than 500,000 miles
• Prime area for finding dinosaur fossils
• All three are scarcely populated because of
  severe climates and topography

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China

• The Chinese Realm
• East sea border.
• West Deserts and mountains.
• North Deserts.
• South Himalayas.
• Q5 What will these borders cause?
• Cultural division between the Han realm and the
  China of the minorities.

Maritime border
Cultural border
Physical border
Turkic
Mongols
Arid China
Gobi
Takla Makan
Koreas
Highland China
Isolation
Han
Tibetan
Tai Miao-Yao
Taiwan
Political border
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Climate
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Chinas Climate Zones
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Monsoon Precipitation Patterns
This region also benefits/suffers from the
rainfall from monsoons Sometimes receive
typhoons tropical storms
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Winter Monsoons
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Summer Monsoons
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Precipitation in China
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Summer Rainfall
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Vegetation
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Agricultural Regions in China
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Arable Land
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Warm Up

• Composition Notebooks need to be turned in on the
  stool.
• Have notes out from yesterday ready to go.

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Natural Resources
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Major Chinese Industries
Major Industrial Areas near Beijing and Shanghai
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Fuels, Power, Minerals, Metals in China
Large reserves of petroleum, coal, and natural
gas.
Mineral resources include iron, lead, zinc,
copper, etc.
Allowed them to be self-sufficient for much of
its history
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Environmental issues

• Suffering from
• Deforestation
• Desertification
• Soil erosion
• Coastal pollution
• Flooding
• Poor urban air quality

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Korea

• The shrimp between the whales
• Q6 What are the two whales?
• Japan and China
• About the size of Indiana.
• Highly homogenous ethnicity and linguistically
• Religiously divided between Christianity (49)
  and Buddhism (47).
• 75 urban with 27 of the population living in
  Seoul (13 million).

China
North Korea
Sea of Japan
Demilitarized zone
South Korea
Japan
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Korea is practically surrounded by water Q7
What is this called?

Peninsula
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Japan
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Japan and the United States
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Japan Physical Geography

• 1. The homeland of Japan consists of four main
  islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu,
  and several hundred smaller islands.
• 2. Japan is formed largely of mountains
  separated by narrow valleys.
• 3. Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
• There are about 60 volcanoes in Japan
• 4. Japan is subject to frequent and powerful
  earthquakes.

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Japan

• Physical constraints
• 16 of the land is habitable.
• Efficient management of existing agricultural
  land.

Hokkaido
Honshu
Kanto Plain
Nobi Plain
Yamato Plain
Shikoku
Kyushu
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Very Mountainous Little Arable Land
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Mt. Fuji
Largest mountain in Japan. Last erupted in 1707)
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Vegetation
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Japan Vegetation

• 2/3 of the entire country is forested and the
  Japanese make use of wood in almost endless ways

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Terrace Farming of Rice
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The Japanese Farm the Sea
TokyoFish Market
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Raw Materials and Resources
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Natural Resources
Less abundant natural resources than China.
Q7 What will this force Japan to do?
Trade with other countries for what it needs
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Industry
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Taiwan
Now a free-market, multiparty democracy Home of
23 million well-traveled, well-educated, and
industrious people.
Chungyang Range
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Taiwan

• 1. About 100 miles from the coast of southeast
  China.
• 2. Similar constraints to neighboring countries
• 60 of the territory is composed of mountains.
• Chungyang Range covers about 50 the land area.
• 25 usable for agriculture.
• 3. Bulk of the population lives in the western
  coastal plain.

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China
Taiwan
Formosa Strait
Quemoy
Chungyang Range