Question | Answer |
What's a plateau? | A raised area of level land bordered on one or more sides by steep slopes or cliffs. |
What is fertile? | It is able to support plant life. |
What is an archipelago? | A group of islands. |
What is population density? | The average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer. |
What's a monsoon? | a wind that changes direction with the changee of season |
What's a typoon? | A tropical storm that develops over th epacific ocean with winds that reach speeds greater than 74 mph. |
What's deciduous? | Falling off or sheding, as in leaves, seasonally or at a certain stage of development. |
What is a developing country? | A country that has little industrial production and little modern technology |
What's a developed country? | A country with many industries and a well-developed country. |
What's a terrace? | A level area in a hillside. |
What is double-cropping? | To grow two or more crops on the same land. |
What's an emperor? | A male ruler of an empire. |
What's a dynasty? | A series of rulers from the same family. |
What is a calan? | A group of families with a common ancestor. |
What's cultural diffusion? | The spreading of ideas or practices from one culture or other cultures. |
What is a communist? | Relating to a g overnment that controls a country's large industries, businesses, and land. |
What is a commune? | A community in which people own land as a group and where they live and work together. |
what is a dialect? | A variation of a language that is unique to a region or an area. |
What's a nomad? | A person who has no settled home but who moves from place to place. |
What is homeogenous? | Identical or similar. |
What's a ethnic group? | A group of people who share such charactericts as langege,religon and ancestry. |
What is radical? | Extreme |
What are red guards? | Groups of students who carried out Mao Zedong's policies during the cultural revoltion. |
What is Free enterprise system? | An economic system in which people can choose their own jobs, start private businesses, own property, and make a profit. |
What's Gross Domestic product? | The total value of all goods and services produced in an economy. |