Chapter 9 Geography
China's current population is closest to:
1.3 billion
Mao Zedong's proclamation creating the communist People's Republic of China was announced in:
1949
By 2100, Japan's current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to about _____ million:
67
The following are the busiest container ports in Asia except:
Buter
Taiwan is located off the coast of:
China
The country of the "people of Han" is:
China
Which of the following is not a Special Economic Zone?
Chongqing
About 75 percent of Taiwan's population live in rural areas.
FALSE
Although they experienced difficulties in getting along with each other in the early years following the communist revolution, China and the former Soviet Union were always close friends and allies from the mid-1960s until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
FALSE
In terms of coal, iron ore, and petroleum, Japan is better supplied by domestic resources than the British Isles.
FALSE
Japan's core area is developing along the shores of the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
FALSE
Japan's four large islands are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Sakhalin.
FALSE
North and South Korea are in the process of reuniting into a single country.
FALSE
Shenzhen has now ended its role as an SEZ since Hong Kong reunified with China in 1997.
FALSE
South Korea has developed under a socialist system since 1945.
FALSE
Taiwan was invaded by the Communist Chinese in 1945.
FALSE
The Boxer Rebellion was a reaction by the Chinese to foreigners in 1949.
FALSE
The Liao Basin is one of the most productive agricultural regions of Guangdong Province in South China.
FALSE
The Long March took Chinese Communists from Shanghai to Taiwan.
FALSE
The Meiji Restoration preceded the 1853 arrival of Commodore Perry's flotilla, and hailed this contact immediately as a major new trading opportunity.
FALSE
The fortified political boundary separating the two Koreas has done little to halt trade and population movements between the two political entities.
FALSE
Xinjiang and Xizang are two of the most densely populated regions of China Proper.
FALSE
Xizang is part of China proper.
FALSE
Japan's largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area is:
Honshu
Taiwan was at one time a colony of:
Japan
Which of the following statements about Japan is false?
Japan has numerous ethnic minorities that create significant internal strife
Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, is located in the _____ District.
Kansai
Japan's leading region of urbanization and industry (and agriculture as well) is the:
Kanto Plain
The region in Japan best situated to do business with Korea and China is:
Kitakyushu
Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan's capital city was:
Kyoto
The North China Plain is dominated by the:
Lower Huang He
Which of the following statements is false?
Most Japanese are Buddhists.
Which of the following regions is often called "Manchuria" by uninformed foreigners?
Northeast China
The SEZ located closest to China's largest city, Shanghai, is:
Pudong
The _____ is Japan's Mediterranean.
Seto Inland Sea
China's largest city is:
Shanghai
The Special Economic Zone that has been most successful is:
Shenzhen
Which of the following lies just across the old Chinese border from Hong Kong?
Shenzhen
Which of the following was not occupied by Japan during World War II?
Siberia
China's Shenzhen is a Special Economic Zone.
TRUE
Japan forged a major colonial empire in Asia during the first half of the twentieth century.
TRUE
Japan's name for itself is Nippon.
TRUE
Japan's territorial dispute with Russia is over four small islands in the Kurile Island chain.
TRUE
Mongolia is a good example of a buffer state.
TRUE
North Korea has numerous industrial raw materials; the resources of the South are more agricultural.
TRUE
On a southwest-bound trip on the Tokaido "bullet train" out of Tokyo, the city of Nagoya is reached before Osaka.
TRUE
Taiwan ranks ahead of the People's Republic of China in GNI per capita.
TRUE
The Nobi Plain lies between the Kansai District and the Kanto Plain.
TRUE
The North China Plain is one of the world's most densely populated farming areas.
TRUE
The capital of Taiwan is Taipei.
TRUE
The economies of North and South Korea are complementary and both states would have much to gain by reunification.
TRUE
The island of Hokkaido lies outside of Japan's core area.
TRUE
To symbolize modernization, the Meiji rulers shifted the capital from Kyoto to Tokyo.
TRUE
With the single exception of Kyoto, all primary and secondary cities of Japan lie on the coast.
TRUE
Which city is located in the last outpost of the Republic of China, which was first proclaimed in 1912:
Taipei
Which of the following statements is false?
The Taiwanese cannot keep pace economically with the mainland Chinese.
The largest conurbation in Japan is:
Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki
Which of the following is the Chinese name for Tibet?
Xizang
The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was:
a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country
Xizang:
all of the above
The Huang He:
almost encircles the Ordos Desert
Japan's natural landscapes:
are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium
The Xinjiang region:
contains desert basins near Turkestan
The capital of Japan was moved:
from Kyoto to Tokyo by the Meiji rulers
Which of these statements about Mongolia is least accurate?
it is desirous of union with China
Powdery wind-blown soil formed from pulverization by glaciers is called:
loess
The Meiji Restoration:
marked the beginning of Japan's modernization and generated its economic and military transformation
Which of the following is false concerning the western interior of China?
much of the area is a flat plain
South Korea's growth has resulted from an economic system described as:
state capitalism
Which of the following is one of the worlds' most heavily populated agricultural areas:
the North China Plain
An area of China that can be designated as a "regional state" is:
the Pearl River Hub
Which of the following is not located in Northeast China?
the ancient city of Xian
Which of the following has not been important in the development of Shenzhen as an SEZ?
the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development
Japan's recent economic problems are a result of all of the following except:
three major earthquakes since 1990 that resulted in 500,000 deaths and billions of yen in losses
