China Revs Up

1. What environmental impact is China’s economy having on the United States?

2. Explain how transportation is changing in China.

3. ______provides 70 percent of the energy used to generate electricity and to forge steel for construction and manufacturing in China. What problems has the use of this fuel created for China?

4. Explain the "The Great Leap Forward." of the 1970’s.

5. During the 1980’s what changes did Deng create for the economy of China?

6. Coal is a cheap source of energy: but coal is notoriously ______.

7. Kuznets Curve In the 1950s, economist Simon Kuznets was charting the relationship between industrialization and the environment. He noticed that when countries first industrialize, pollution levels ______. As the process of modernization continues, levels eventually peak and begin to ______. He theorized that rising ______plays a role; a more well-to-do population demands a ______environment. When a country reaches a critical level of affluence, pollution levels ______.

8. The passenger car market grew in China about ______percent last year.

9. Chinese cars are just much more polluting than U.S. or European cars, and that's because they don't have the same ______that the U.S. or European or Japanese cars have.

10. Explain how the automobile industry is helping the Chinese economy. 11. Explain the importance of developing China’s heartland.

12. China is home to ______percent of the world's population, but China has only ______percent of the world's arable land.

13. Explain how China is being farmed very inefficiently without producing much benefit for the people who live on the land.

14. What are some possible ways China could potentially clean up its environment while maintaining economic growth?