1. Front of Board
TPO: We will interpret different types of maps to answer geographic questions using a PPT & Atlas to produce a GeoQuest.
EQ: What geographic features are unique to East Asia?
What environmental impacts has the 3 Gorges Dam had on China?
STAAR: What environmental issue is affecting the environment of China?
Reflection: Do you think the 1 Child Policy could exist in the USA?
Vocabulary: atheism, isolationism, Buddhism, hydroelectricty

2. Fast Facts
Countries – China, Japan, North & South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan
Population – 1.6 Billion
Main Religion – Buddhism (most practiced), Atheism (no belief in a God), Christianity

3. Landforms Mountain Ranges Rivers Islands Kunlun Mtns. Qinling Shandi
Yellow River
Yangtze River
Islands
Hainan
Taiwan
Japan

4. Climate & Vegetation Climate Gobi Desert Similar to USA
Same latitudes & climate zones
Gobi Desert
In northern China
Extremely arid

5. Three Gorges Dam Built on the Yangtze River Positive Impacts
Controls flooding
Produces hydroelectricity
Increase trade
Negative Impacts
soil erosion
factory waste
pollution

6. China Population – 1.3 billion (most populous in world)
Economy – based on agriculture & industry
Government – Communist
GDP – trillion

7. One Child Policy Created in 1979 Only 1 child per family
Reduced population growth
Not enforced as much now
What issue may come of this?
Males will outnumber females

8. Japan Population – 127 million NOT ethnically diverse (few minorities)
Economy – 3rd largest in the world
Based on manufacturing & industry
Very Urban

9. Taiwan Ethnically Chinese 1949 – Communists take control of China
Nationalists ( those fighting for a Republic against Communists) lost and migrated to Taiwan
China still claims Taiwan

10. North & South Korea Located on the Korean peninsula
1950 – North invades South
Starts Korean War
Treaty signed in 1953
North Korea – Communist
Weak economy (practice isolationism)
South Korea – Democracy
Strong economy (trades globally)