Monday, July 12, 2010

Reflection Blog #10

9.4.1 How has the environment of China influenced where people live?

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  1. The environment of China has influenced where people live because 80% of China are mountains and Plateaus making it hard for people to farm and live. However only 20% of China is flat land making it easier for people to farm and live in.

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  2. Many Chinese people are farmers, so they live where the land is flat and fertile. Since most, eighty percent, of China is mountains or plateaus, not many people live there. Those that do may herd animals, or use terrace farming. By cutting flat patches into a hill or mountain, any fertile soil can be used to grow crops. Many people live near rivers, for water and fertileness of the river valleys. Twenty percent of China is flat, but only roughly ten percent of that is fertile. The Gobi Desert is flat, but has a harsh climate and little rain. There is little farming in the Gobi. The fruitful South, however, is heavily populated.
    -Rachel White

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  3. Lots of people in China were farmers and so they would live near the rivers where there was fertile land. Some people use terrace farming because of the 80% of the land that is mountains and plateaus. If you were to live in the desert where 20% of the land is flat then there is no way that you could farm.
    -Alyssa Weakley

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  4. The environment of China has influenced where people live because eighty percent of China is mountains and plateaus making it hard for people to live and farm and twenty percent of China is flat land making it easier for people to live in and farm on.

    ~Alexis Strauss

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  5. The landforms strongly influenced where people live in China. 80% of China are mountains and plateaus, leaving only 20% to be flat land and only about half of that is fertile. Few people live in the mountainous regions, living off terrace farming, but most tend to live where the land is flat and fertile.

    Amneh Yacoub

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  6. The environment has influenced how people live because many people in China were farmers. 80% of China is either mountains or plateaus, and the other 20% is flat land. 10% of the flat land is desert, making it difficult to farm. Farmers rely on the rivers to farm, such as the Huang He. People who live at higher elevations use terrace farming to grow their crops. The south has better farming and industry than the north, and a larger population too.

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  7. The environment of China has influenced where people live because 80% of the land is mountains and plateaus. Only 20% of the land is flat and/or fertile. Only in some areas is there fertile soil where farmers can plant and terrace crops. Other than that, the people must find somewhere to live where they can provide for themselves and their families.

    -Jasmine Salamat-Amoli

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  8. China was filled with farmers. And with the limited flat/fertile land, they had to figure out how to farm in the mountain/plateaus regions. In order to keep the crop-flow going, they had to terrace farm which makes farming on the mountainous region much easier. If they didn't do this, the people would have to find a new occupation to serve to make money and support their family.

    --Noah Sylvester

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  9. chinas landforms have influenced were they lived because chinas population is mostly farmers and only like 10 to 20% of the land is farmable. also the climate in most places being very cold in the winter also caused some people to move.

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  10. the environment of china caused its inhabitants to pack themselves into the river valleys and flatlands. only 20% of China is arable; the rest is covered by mountains and plateaus. The Yellow River (and the Chang and Xi Rivers) provides extremely fertile soil for farmers to gather around. mongols and others still live as herders and stuff in the 80% of farmless China, but most people live in the big cities that sprang up around the more hospitable areas.

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  11. In China there was only twenty percent of land that people could farm on near rivers and fertile soil. The rest of China is just plateaus and mountains where people couldn't farm so they stayed away from there.

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  12. A lot of people in China were farmers and so they would live near the rivers where there was fertile land. Some people used terrace farming because of the 80% of the land that is mountains and plateaus. If you were to live in the desert where 20% of the land is flat then there is no possible way to farm.- lauren teebor

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  13. The environment of China has influenced where people live because since there were so many farmers a lot of people moved near the rivers. There wasnt a lot of land that had fertile soil so people had to figure out a way to provide for them and there families.

    -Sydney Werdesheim

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  14. The environment in China influenced where people lived because its 80% mountains and plateus. There wasnt lots of fertile land.

    Ryan Weiss

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  15. The environment of China influenced where people live because it has many mountains and plateaus. The mountains and plateaus were harder to get over,but they kept some invaders off. The rivers helped transportation and trade.
    =sammi westfall

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  16. 80% of China is high plateau land. The other 20% is flat land which only about half of the 20% is good for farming. So the people who did not have land in a good farming area moved to the city.

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  17. Terrace farming was used because 80% of china is mountains, hills, or plateaus. Also, they farmed by rivers because of the fertile silt deposited when the rivers flodded

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  18. The environment of china has influenced were people live because 80% of China is high plateau land and 20% percent of China is flat land and there is fertile soil were farmers can plant and grow their crops

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  19. He environment has influenced china because 80% of it platues and 20% of it flat land so they had to adapt to the land and figure out how to farm.

    _- kai yuricich

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  20. Because most of China is filled with mountains and plateaus, the Chinese people use the remaining land, of fertile soil, to farm on.

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  21. the environment has influenced china's people because almost all of china is covered in mountain so the people had to adapt and find other ways to live
    -reece ticotin

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  22. The environment of China has influenced where people live in ways such as making it hard for people to live and farm due to the fact that 80% of China is mountainous. However people used these mountains by creating terrace farming. Of the 20% of flat land half isn’t fertile.

    -Mike Turner

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  23. The environment of China has influenced where people live in many ways. People could not grow crops easily on mountains, so they congregated around rivers, like the yellow river. However, some people still terrace farmed in the mountains.
    -jacob stock

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  24. China's environment brought challenges to its people. The Chinese people had to terrace the hills for farmland due to the large amount of hill and mountains.

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  25. Where people live has been infuenced by the environment of China because eighty percent of China is plateaus and mountains which makes it hard for people to live and farm. The other twenty percent of China is flat land making it easier for people to live in and farm on.

    -Rachel Valance

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  26. the environment influenced where people lived because most of china was mountains and it made them hard to farm. So the Chinese made terraces on the side of hills so they could farm.
    -max weiss

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  27. the environment influenced where people lived cause china is mostly mountains so they had to make terraces to be able to farm

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  28. 80% of China's land is covered in mountains so most people live on the other 20% that is flat fertile land. Those who do live on the mountains herd animals for a living or use terrace farming to farm.

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  29. China is mostly mountains, so the people had to adapt to all the riggid areas, and make terrace's. They also herd animals and farm.

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