D27-PPT 1
Landforms and Resources
East Asia
This map will answer 1 – 4,look at it closely.
East Asia’s Rugged Terrain
u  Includes a variety of landforms (5)
v High Mountains
v Deserts
v Islands
u  Result of a collision of tectonic plates (6)
u  Mountains in the western part of the region restrict
movement (7)
u  This restricted movement forced the population to
concentrate in the eastern part of the region, while west
remained under populated (8)
Mountains
u  (9) Mountains limit
contact between East
Asians and other Asians
u  Kunlun Mountains are
located in western
China
v Source of the Yellow
and Yangtze Rivers (9)
u  Qinling Shandi
Mountains divide
northern and southern
China (10)
Plateaus and Plains
u Rough landscape in East Asia
u Few flat surfaces
v Plateau of Tibet
v Tarim Pendi Basin (Western
China)
v Taklimakan Desert (Western
China)
v Mongolian Plateau
v Manchurian Plain
u Sparsely populated (11)
(12)
Gobi Desert…
One of the largest deserts in the world.
Gobi Desert
u One of the largest
deserts in the world
v Stretches from NW
China into Mongolia
u More than 500,000 (13)
square miles
v Larger than TX and CA
combined
Peninsulas
u  Many peninsulas on coast of
China (14)
v Creates a long coastline
w  Development of port cities like
Shanghai
v Peninsulas include
w  Shandong Peninsula
w  Leizhou Peninsula
w  Macao Peninsula
u  Korean Peninsula east of
China
v The two countries that make up
the Korean Peninsula are
v North Korea and South Korea
Islands of East Asia
u Continental Shelf
v Submerged border of the continent
v Extends east from China
u Some islands stand above the
continental shelf
u Isolation of islands
v Allow for greater security and peace (15)
v Developed trading economies
Hainan and Hong Kong
u Hong Kong
v Always has been a
major world port
v Used to be a British
colony
v 1997- Hong Kong
came under authority
of mainland China
(16)
Japan
u Island nation with
enormous
economic power
u Limited natural
resources
u Large fishing
industry (17)
u Major global trading
partner
China’s Rivers
u 3 great rivers
v Huang He (Yellow River)
v Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
v Xi Jiang (West River)
u Critical to development of China’s
civilization
u Feed hundreds of millions of people because
of the fields and crops they irrigate (18)
Huang He (Yellow River)
Huang He (Yellow River)
u  Northern China
v Starts in Kunlun
Mountians (West)
u  Moves east for 3,000
miles and empties into
the Yellow Sea
u  Gets name from the
Yellow silt the river
carries
u  Also known as
“China’s Sorrow”
because of the floods it
has caused (19)
Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)
u  Longest river in Asia
v 3,900 Miles
v Starts in Tibet & flows to
the East China Sea
u  Major trade route since
ancient times (20)
v Still carries most of the
goods shipped on
China’s waterways
u  Frequently floods,
causing a great deal of
damage
Xi Jiang (West River)
u South China (21)
v Flows through SE China and joins with the Pearl
River to flow into the South China Sea
u Forms an estuary between Hong Kong and
Macau
v River’s current meets the ocean’s tides
u River valley has important mineral resources
Land and Forests
u  Mountains in East Asia
mean little land is
available for
agriculture
v China’s population is
concentrated in east
where there are river
basins
w  River basins have highly
productive land
w  Rice and other crops
u  Forests resources
abundant in area (22)
Energy Resources
u Energy Reserves
v China- petroleum, coal, natural gas (23)
w Reserves have allowed China to be selfsufficient
v Korea- coal
v Japan- coal
Water Resources
u River systems
v Crop irrigation, hydroelectric power,
transportation (24)
u Food
v Look to the sea for food in East Asia
v Japan has developed one of the larges
fishing industries in the world
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