Cartographer: East Asia

Physical Map

Landforms

Plateau of Tibet

North China Plateau

Mongolian Plateau

Manchurian Plain

Islands of Japan

  • Hokkaido
  • Honshu
  • Shikoku
  • Kyushu

Taklimakan Desert

Gobi Desert

Himalayas

Tien Shan

QinlingShandi Mountains

Mt. Everest

Mt. Fuji

Kunlun Mountains

Atlai Mountains

Water

Gulf of Tonkin

South China Sea

East China Sea

Yellow Sea

Sea of Japan

Taiwan Strait

Korea Strait

Pacific Ocean

Philippine Sea

Huang He

Chang Jiang

Xi Jiang

Mekong River

Yalu River

Grand Canal

Three Gorges Dam

Political Map

Countries and Regions

China

Inner Mongolia

Manchuria

Tibet

Macau

Mongolia

North Korea

South Korea

Japan

Hong Kong

Taiwan

Label the Major Water

Grand Canal

Cities

Nagasaki

Hiroshima

Tokyo

Yokohama

Kyoto

Sapporo

Taipei

Beijing

Guangzhou

Chongqing

Lhasa

Seoul

Pyongyang

DMZ (de-militarized zone)

  1. Color the disputed territories of China, Indicate the parties claiming the land
  2. Aksai Chin
  3. Arunachal Pradesh
  4. Islands in the South China Sea
  5. Senkaku Islands
  6. Color in the Asian Tigers. Make the Tiger Cub economies a lighter shade. (Bonus if you actually make them tiger print! Rawr!)
  7. Make a key!!!

Questions

(Answer on a separate sheet of paper-no squanching!!)

  1. How does China compare in size with the US?
  2. How does Japan compare?
  3. What are the three major river systems that run West to East in China?
  4. Describe each one.
  5. What religion/belief do most people practice/follow in East Asia? Why?
  6. Where is most of the population of China located? Why? (be more specific than “the coast”)
  7. How have the mountains in the west and the oceans in the east affected China?
  8. Describe the landscape of East Asia (p. 619).
  9. Why were the Mongols not able to take Japan?
  10. Japan is made of mountainous islands, how has this affected their development.
  11. What are three (3) positive effects of the Three Gorges Dam?
  12. What are three (3) negative effects of the Three Gorges Dam.
  13. Describe China’s Grand Canal.
  14. How has it helped/affected China?
  15. What is currently being done to the Grand Canal?
  16. What are some environmental concerns in China?
  17. How are they being dealt with?
  18. What are environmental concerns in Japan?
  19. How are they b
  20. eing dealt with?