China Geographical Quest

http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html : Use this site to answer the questions below:

Click on Geography

COPY the questions below (they are in blue type), and PASTE them into a Word document.

Save the questions in your S drive. For file name, put your last name with no spaces and no punctuation. See below:

Write your answers directly on the word document you have saved in your S drive.

As you work, hit the disk occasionally to keep saving your work.

QUESTIONS

Geography

1. Compare the area of China to the rest of the world.

2. Compare China’s population to the rest of the world.

3. How does China’s population impact the resources they have to use?

4. Define the word terrain.

5. Describe the climates of China

a. South

b. North

6. Name the 2 major rivers that flow through China.

a. How do rivers positively impact China

b. How do rivers negatively impact China

7. Click on the Explore button and then click Tools . Under Choose a Map, select terrain.

8. In the box below, draw a small map and label China’s two major rivers –

9. Using the same terrain map, answer these questions:

a. In what area would you find the population low?

b. How would people in the north adapt to the climate?

c. What area would be the most fertile?

d. What direction do the rivers flow?

e. Which section, north or south , receives more rain?

f. Of all the climate zones on this map , which one would be the most suitable for farming?

10. Define the following words

a. Headwaters

b. Windborne

c. Loess

d. Steppes

e. Irrigates

f.

11. Under Choose a Map, select Modern Day Political map.

12. What countries are on the northern border of China?

13. What countries are on the southern border of China?

Make sure you have saved all of your questions and answers in your S drive!

After you have answered all of the questions, you are going to put your answer sheets in the Student Dropbox for Mr. Sullivan to grade.

Ø Go to your S drive

Ø Highlight or select the document you saved—DO NOT OPEN IT-see below

Ø COPY the selected document (control C or Edit to Copy—you cannot right click)

Ø Use the back arrow to go to My Computer

Ø Under Network Drives, go to BUpublic

Ø Go to Student Dropbox

Ø

Ø In the Student Dropbox, locate the Sullivan folder, Open it, and PASTE your document into the correct period folder.

If you finish the first activity early, you are going to go to the site below, and do the activity as described.

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/geography/followinstructions/china/index.shtml

On the page go to (Already a member? Click here.)-----------Get a bookmark on the library counter with username and password.

If you finish that, do this activity:

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/asia/china/mapquizprintout.shtml

On the page to go (Already a member? Click here.)-----------Get a bookmark on the library counter with username and password.