1. Visit to China Unit 1: Geography of China

2. Unit 1 Objectives Where is China located? What are the characteristics of the relief and climate of China? What is the major relief of China? How do the ethnic groups of China differ from one another?

3. Where is China located? 1. Which continent? Answer: Asia 2. Which ocean is in the east of China? Answer: The Pacific Ocean 3. Do you know how many times the area of China is to the area of Hong Kong? Answer: 9.6 million km 2. About 8696 times the area of Hong Kong!!

4. What are the neighboring countries of China? Try putting China together! You can try this game.game

5. What is the major relief of China? What is ‘relief’? Answer: the difference in height (elevation/slope) from the surrounding terrain (land) What are the 3 main kinds of relief in China? Answer: plateaus, basins and plains

6. Plateaus, Basins, Plains Plateau Plain Plain: a broad piece of flat land just above the sea level and is ideal for farming Basin Basin: a large area of flat land that is surrounded by mountains Plateau: a flat piece of grassland high above the sea level and is suitable for grazing animals

7. Mountain Ranges A mountain range or mountain belt is a large area containing numerous mountains close together.

8. Rivers Rivers are a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another stream.