East Asia: Climate and Vegetation

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East Asia Climate and Vegetation
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1-What are the five major climate regions of
East Asia?

• Semiarid
• Arid
• humid subtropical
• humid continental
• highland humid subtropical
• the tropical wet region and the subarctic
  regioncover a small part of the land.

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2-What is the climate in a large part of eastern
China?

• Humid subtropical climate
• cool winters and hot summers with plenty of rain.
  

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3-Why are summers a bit cooler and winters a bit
warmer in Japan and the Koreas than inother
places of the same latitude?

• Both are surrounded by water

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Monsoon?

• Winds that change direction with the change of
  season
• Monsoons strongly affect the climates of East
  Asia

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4-What causes the rainfall during the summer
monsoons in Japan?

• Pacific Ocean winds blow northwest toward the
  Asian continent.
• They bring rainfall that starts in June.

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 13-The Japanese call the summer ________ the
plum rain because it begins when the plums
start to ripen on the trees.

• Monsoon

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Typhoon?

• A tropical storm that develops over the Pacific
  Ocean, with winds that reach speeds greater than
  74 mph

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5-Why are typhoons so destructive?

• High speed 74 mph or more, whirling winds and
  heavy rains can cause major damage.
• Killer typhoons have brought devastation and
  death to some countries in East Asia.
• A typhoon that struck China in 1922 resulted in
  about 60,000 deaths.

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14-In 1281, a ________destroyed the Chinese
fleet and saved the Japanese from attack.

• TYPHOON
• Typhoons twice saved Japan from invaders
• In 1274, Kublai Khan, a great leader of Chinas
  Mongol people, sent a fleet of warships to Japan.
  The Mongols got only as far as the island of
  Kyushu. A typhoon frightened them back to China.
• When Kublai Khan tried again in 1281, a typhoon
  destroyed his huge fleet. The Japanese called
  this typhoon kamikaze, or divine wind.

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6-What does climate determine in East Asia?

• What crops people grow
• How often they can plant
• How easily they can harvest their fields

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7-Why must much of the plant life in East Asia
be hardy?

• Plants must be strong enough to withstand
  seasonal differences in temperature and rainfall

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 11-How does bamboo survive during dry spells in
southern China and Japan?

• Bamboo grows quickly during the wet season in
• southern China and Japan.
• It can also survive dry spells by storing food in
  its huge root system

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8-Why is the Huang River sometimes called
Chinas Sorrow?

• The river sometimes overflows during the
  Monsoons.

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 9-What is the main crop in southern China?

• Rice is the main crop in the warmer climate of
  southern China

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 10-What is the main crop in northern China?

• Wheat and other grains in the cooler climate of
  northern China

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 12-Explain how the climate affects what
people in China eat?

• Rice needs warm weather to grow, so it thrives in
  warmer southern China residents there eat rice
  products.
• Grains grow better in northern China, which is
  cooler, so residents eat more flour products

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 Deciduous?

• Falling off or shredding, as in
• leaves, seasonally or at a certain
• stage of development

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 15-Maples and birches are examples of
_____________trees

• Deciduous
• They turn gold, orange and red in fall