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2nd Semester Interim
2014 Review covering Asia's geography, India, & China
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| India | Monsoons affect the climate of this country |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Person who led India to independence non-violently |
| Buddhism & Hinduism | 2 world religions that believe in reincarnation |
| Mao Zedong | China's first communist leader |
| Quota | A limit on the amount of goods that can be brought into a country |
| Green Revolution | Movement to train farmers and introduce new technology so that farming is more efficient and productive |
| Federal | System of government where power is shared among different levels |
| China | Country that changed from a command to a mixed economy between the 1950s and now |
| Japan | Country that is mainly mountains so it relies on importing food since there is little farming |
| Homespun Campaign | Time when Gandhi encouraged Indians to make their own cloth and boycott British cloth |
| Great Leap Forward | Program in China during the 1950s to make farming and industry more productive; people lived on large collective farms; it was not successful |
| Civil disobedience | Gandhi's form of protest; non-violent non-cooperation |
| Philosophy | Confucianism is a ___ not a religion because it is more of a way of living rather than a focus on beliefs and religious rituals |
| Tariff | A tax on trade to increase the price of foreign goods coming into a country |
| Ganges | River in India that experiences pollution from cremation ashes, industrial pollution, and pesticide run-off |
| Unitary | System of government where the central government holds nearly all of the power |
| Cultural Revolution | Movement led by Mao and the Red Guards to eliminate those who oppose Mao's plans and those who could challenge his ideas |
| Human capital | Investment in ___ (education, training, new technology) will increase a country's GDP |
| Dominion | India turned down ___ status because they wanted complete independence, not just a few more freedoms from the British |
| Tiananmen Square | Location of a student uprising in 1989 where students demonstrated and expressed their desire for more freedoms |
| Oligarchy | Type of government where a small group makes most of the governments decisions |
| Representative democracy | Government in which the people elect members of the legisture (Congress or Parliament) to represent them in decision-making |
| Capital goods | Japan invests in the development of ___ so their technology and exported goods are successful; Japan relies on exports to make money to pay for imported agricultural goods |
| Gross domestic product | The total amount that a country produces |
| Collective farm (commune) | Large farm where workers produce their agricutural goods for the government who then distributes it to the people |
| China | Country with a unitary system of government - China or India? |
| India | Country with a federal system of government - China or India? |
| Oligarchy | The Chinese Communist Party is an example of this form of government where power is held in the hands of a small group of people |
| Parliamentary Democracy | India's form of government is a ___ because people elect representatives to the Indian National Congress, and then those members choose a Prime Minister |
| Indira Gandhi | India's first female Prime Minister; she was assassinated in 1984 |
| Natural resources | Because China has abundant ___ and has experienced economic reforms, its economy has improved to one of the strongest in the world |
| Fertilizer | High levels of nitrogen are found in the Yangtze because of residue from ___ that runs off from farms polluting the river |
| Monsoon | A seasonal wind |
| Typhoon | A destructive storm that forms over the Pacific Ocean |
| Tsunami | A wave of water created by the movement of tectonic plates |
| Gobi & Taklimakan | The 2 deserts in China that are dry because the Himalayas block rain from moving into the area |
| Himalayas | Mountain range in northern India that kept invaders from entering the region from the north |
| Japan | Country that imports much of its food, relies on fishing for much of its food, and uses terrace farming in the mountainous regions |
| Salt | Gandhi led a March to the Sea to protest the British tax on ___ |
| Unsuccessful | Were most of Mao's economic reforms, like the Great Leap Forward, successful or unsuccessful? |
| GDP (Gross Domestic Product) | If a country invests in human capital, ___ wil increase because workers are better educated and better trained to do more skilled and productive jobs |
| Capital goods | China has invested in ___ to build new factories and develop new industries to produce consumer goods to sell all over the world |
| Nationalism | A feeling of great loyalty and patriotism to one's nation |
| Loess | Yellowish silt that is blown into the Huang He river, carried downstream, and deposited along its banks making the soil fertile |
| Hydroelectricity | The Three Gorges Dam was built to help control flooding along the Yangtze and to create ___ to produce power |
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