Download Terms and Definitions in East Asian History and Culture and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 East Asia is composed of... DEFINITION 1 China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan. TERM 2 Regulatory lakes are... DEFINITION 2 areas where river flows are diverted to during periods of high water, thus reducing the flow downstream. TERM 3 Sediment load means... DEFINITION 3 suspended clay, silt, and sand. TERM 4 Loess consists of... DEFINITION 4 fine, windblown sediment that was deposited on the upland area (Loess Plateau) during the last Ice Age, accumulating in some places to depths of several hundred feet. TERM 5 Pollution exporting is... DEFINITION 5 when companies move their dirtier factories overseas. This has occurred in Japan; they displace their pollution. TERM 6 Central place theory is... DEFINITION 6 a theory where an evenly distributed rural population will give rise to a regular hierarchy of urban places, with uniformly spaced larger cities surrounded by constellations of smaller cities, each of which, in turn, will be surrounded by smaller towns. TERM 7 Urban primacy is... DEFINITION 7 a condition that occurs when the urban population is concentrated in a single city. TERM 8 Superconurbanation is... DEFINITION 8 a megalopolis, which is a huge zone of coalesced metropolitan areas. TERM 9 Ideographic writing is... DEFINITION 9 a form of writing where each symbol primarily represents an idea rather than a sound. TERM 10 Confucianism is... DEFINITION 10 the philosophy developed by Confucius, which came to occupy a significant position in all societies in East Asia. TERM 21 Laissez-faire is... DEFINITION 21 an economic system in which the state has minimal involvement and in which market forces largely guide economic activity. TERM 22 Geomancy is... DEFINITION 22 the traditional Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the principles of cosmic harmony and discord that supposedly course through the local topography. TERM 23 Diaspora is... DEFINITION 23 the scattering of a particular group of people over a vast geographical area. TERM 24 Cold War was... DEFINITION 24 the ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union that was conducted between 1946 and 1991. TERM 25 China proper refers to... DEFINITION 25 the eastern half of the country of China where the Han Chinese form the dominant ethnic group. The vast majority of China's population is located there. TERM 26 Burakumin refers to... DEFINITION 26 the indigenous outcast group of Japan, a people whose ancestors reputedly worked in the leather-craft and other "polluting" industries. TERM 27 Anthropogenic landscape is... DEFINITION 27 a landscape heavily transformed by humans.
