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Ring of Fire
Where Pacific, Philippine, and Eurasian tectonic plates meet
Tectonic activity helped create the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea

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Pamirs
Numerous mountain ranges in western China which include high peeks and deep valleys
Kunlun Shan and Tian Shan
Shan is Chinese for mountain
Altay Shan form a natural barrier between China and Mongolia
Himalaya, world’s highest mountains, separate China from South Asia
Mount Everest

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Plateau of Tibet, Plateau of Xizang, in the southwest is East Asia’s highest plateau region
There are two deserts the Taklimakan and the Gobi
The Gobi has frequent dust storms that make life difficult and only get 3 inches of rain annually

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The Huang He, Yellow River, is northern China’s major river system
It is called the Yellow River because it carries tons of fine, yellowish-brown topsoil called loess
North China Plain, also called “China’s sorrow” because the Huang He often floods and kills hundreds of thousands of people

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Chang Jiang, Yangtze River, is Asia’s longest river at 3,965 miles
It is a major transport because it dumps into the ocean in Shanghai
Construction of the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric dam, will hopefully put an end to the flooding along the lower portions

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Near many port cities the Xi forms a huge fertile delta
The Grand Canal, which began in about 400 B.C., moves people and goods 1,085 miles from Beijing to Hangzhou

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Iron ore
Tin
Tungsten
Gold
Large oil deposits lie in the South China Sea and Taklimakan Desert
Abundant coal deposits are located in Northeast China

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Southern China’s “rice bowl” yields two harvests a year, making China the world’s largest producer of rice
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China have the world’s biggest deep-sea fishing industries