Geography of Taiwan

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/geography-of-taiwan

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How big is Geography of Taiwan?35,808 square kilometers (13,826 square miles)
2. What is the seismic activity?High frequency of earthquakes due to active tectonic boundaries
3. What is the average annual typhoons?Four
4. What makes Taiwan's mountains so tall?Taiwan's mountains are very tall because the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate push together, lifting the land up. This tectonic activity creates a tilted fault block structure that raises the peaks.
5. Why do most people live in the western part of Taiwan?The western part has a wide plain made of river sediments, so the land is flat and good for farming. Because it is easier to grow crops and build cities there, more people live in the west.

Tectonic Plates: Massive, irregularly shaped slabs of solid rock composing the Earth's lithosphere.
Fault Block: A block of the Earth's crust that has been uplifted or downthrown along a fault.
Alluvial Plain: A flat area of land formed by sediments deposited by rivers over time.
Endemic Species: A species native and restricted to a particular place.