Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Main Ideas 1 -10 chapter 29

1. Earthquakes are caused by the shifting of Tectonic plates.

2. Japanese islands are unstable because they were formed by volcanoes as the Pacific plate slid under Eurasian plate.

3. Organizations that help with disasters are the Japanese Red Cross, firefighters, and the Asia Pacific Disaster Management Center.

4. Western nations have effected economic development in East Asia because they lent money to east asian countries if they promised to reform.

5. The connection between industrialization and globalization the industries are all interdependent on imports and exports to help each other and it spreads all over...

6. Things wrong in the economies of the region are debt, mismanagement. The economic miracle was based on sacrificing the very poor people. Companies and banks went bankrupt and since everyone's economy was connected, it spread throughout all of Asia.

7. The population growth stresses the environment because there is great demand for living space, so more trees need to be cut and cleared to have room for the large amount of people. Food production is harder to achieve for that many and the water quality is foul.

8. To manage the population there is a limit on the amount of children a couple can have, birth rates dropped, and marriage occurred at a later age

9. in the middle of the 20th century east Asia was the least developed nation in the wold.

10. By the beginning of the 21st century East Asia had

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