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Miss Semnani

G5/ quiz 1

1. What is a yellowish brown soil that enriched north china plain? Loess

2. What is the capital city of china? Beijing

3. Where is china located? Asia

4. What color is loess? yellow

5. Huang River cuts through the North China Plain.

6. Himalayas are called the roof of the world (it is the tallest mountain in the world)

7. What is double cropping? Two crops are grown on the same land in the same year.

8. What is a Climograph? It shows a place`s average weather over a period of time. It has

2 graphs, a bar graph shows precipitation or rain and snowfall, and a line graph shows

temperature.

9. What is the definition of pictographs? The Chinese language is written in pictographs,

or pictures that represent words.

10. What is the longest Chinese dynasty? Zhou dynasty

11. What is the first Chinese dynasty? Shang dynasty

12. Explain the Bronze Age? Was a period during which tools and weapons were made of

bronze.

13.Chinese first dynasty was the Shang dynasty.

14. Oracle bones were used during the Shang dynasty to predict the future.

15. Women during the Zhou dynasty made silk from cocoons of silkworms, a kind of

caterpillar.
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16. Hundreds of thousands of laborers worked for hundreds of years to build the Great Wall

of China.

17. A historian named Sima Qian wrote the first history book of china.

18. Shi Huangdi became china`s first emperor.

19. Middlemen or people who go between

20. Gaozu means high ancestor.

21. Wu di was the first emperor of Han dynasty.

22. What is an ancestor? Is a relative who lived longer ago than a grandparents.

23. Why did Chinese use Oracle bones? To predict the future

24. Write names of 3 dynasties in china? Shang, Zhou and Han dynasty.

25. Write the name of a woman who continues Sima Qin`s work? Ban Zhao