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C27 EA RuggedTerrain
final exam words
| Word | Description |
|---|---|
| Typhoon | a trpoical storm that occurs in the western Pacific |
| Population | more than 60% of the japanese live on only 3% of the land, which the population is full along the coastal plains, cities are very polluted, and they adapt to small space very quickly |
| Gobi Desert | one of the largest deserts in te world, stretches from China into Mongolia, covers 500,000 sq mi, prime area for findind dinosaur fossils |
| PCBs | industrial polluntants that build up in animal tissue and can cause disease and birth defects, during the 1950-1960 Japanese cities were having PCBs and was later banned in 1977 |
| Climate Zones | High-latitude- Subartic & Highland Mid-latitude-Humid Continental &Humid Subtropical Dry- semiriad & desert Tropical- Tropical wet |
| Kunlun Mountains | mountains located in the west of China that are the source of two of China's great rivers, the Huang He and Chang Jiang |
| Three Gorges Dam | a dam begun in the late 20th c. on the Chang Jiang in China, to help control flooding, generate power, and allow ships to sail farther into China |
| Landfill | method of solid waste disposal in which refuse is buried between layers of dirt to fill in or reclaim low-lying ground, japanese have used landfill to reclaim land for most of the cities along the coast, used to enlarge Japan's ports |
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