Chapter 9 Geography
In comparing climates of the United States with those in China, which of the following is INCORRECT? a) Japan has both C and A climates. b) The United States has a larger area of C climates than those of China. c) In the United States C climates reach further north than do C climates in China. d) China has more desert areas than the United States. e) The Korean Peninsula has D climates in the north.
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Japan's population________________. a) is expected to decline over the next half-century b) is concentrated along the shore of the Sea of Japan (East Sea) c) exhibits a low rate of literacy d) is concentrated on Hokkaido and Shikoku e) is reflective of a multicultural society
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The North China Plain is dominated by the: A) lower Huang He B) Loess Plateau C) city of Shanghai D) Pearl River estuary E) Ordos Desert
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The SEZ located so that it can take advantage of its proximity to Southeast Asia is ______. a) Hainan b) Pudong c) Xiamen d) Binhai New Area e) Shenzhen
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The Xinjiang region __________________. a) is the home of the Uyghur people b) is located south of Tibet c) contains the Gobi Desert d) is in the northeastern part of the country e) is another name for Xizang
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The former Portuguese colony that is today a Special Administrative Region is ________. a) Macau b) Shenzhen c) Guangdong d) Hainan Island e) Hong Kong
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The largest metropolitan complex in Japan is: A) Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki B) Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto C) Kyoto-Nagoya D) Hiroshima-Nagasaki E) Osaka-Hokkaido
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The leader who took over in China following the struggle after Mao's death was _________________. a) Deng Xiaoping b) Kim Jong Il c) Chien-Ming Wang d) Yao Ming e) Hu Jintao
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Which of the following regions has been known as and is sometimes still called "Manchuria" by uninformed foreigners? a) Northeast China b) Taiwan c) North China Plain d) Xinjiang e) Red Basin of Sichuan
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Which of the following statements is incorrect? A) Most Japanese are live in northern most Hokkaido island. B) Japan has one of the most homogenous populations of its size in the world. C) The Ainu were the first inhabitants of Japan. D) Shoguns were military rulers in Japan. E) Japan remained isolated for many years until U.S. warships sailed into Japanese harbors in the 1850s.
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Which of the following was NOT occupied by Japan during World War II? a) Siberia b) Manchuria c) Korea d) Taiwan e) Vietnam
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. Taiwan is currently ___________.A) an Autonomous Region in China B) an independent political entity in East Asia C) a Chinese Shi D) a Special Economic Zone in China E) a Chinese concession
b
By 2100, Japan's current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to about _____ million: a) 50 b) 65 c) 95 d) 105 e) 120
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China's total area is __________________ the conterminous United States. a) much larger than that of b) slightly larger than that of c) slightly smaller than that of d) much smaller than that of
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Japan's largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area, is _______________. a) Kyushu b) Honshu c) Shikoku d) Hokkaido e) Sakhalin
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Japan's largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area, is: A) Kyushu B) Honshu C) Shikoku D) Hokkaido E) Sakhalin
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Powdery wind-blown soil formed from pulverization by glaciers is called ________________. a) permadust b) loess c) cenozoic drift d) yellowstone e) huang silt
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Taiwan is located off the coast of ______________. a) Russia b) China c) Korea d) Vietnam e) Japan
b
The Meiji Restoration _________________________. A) marked the demise of the Shogun Dynasty B) marked the beginning of Japan's modernization and generated its economic and military transformation C) triggered the shift of the country's capital city to Kyoto D) halted Japan's explosive population growth and has led to a stable population since about 1890 E) occurred after the disastrous defeat Japan suffered in World War II
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The Meiji Restoration__________________. a) marked the demise of the Shogun Dynasty b) marked the beginning of Japan's modernization and generated its economic and military transformation c) triggered the shift of the country's capital city to Kyoto d) halted Japan's explosive population growth and has led to a stable population since about 1890 e) occurred after the disastrous defeat Japan suffered in World War II
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The capital of Japan __________________. a) was moved from Honshu to Hokkaido in 1948 to assert claims to the Kurile Islands lost to Russia at the end of World War II b) was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo by the Meiji rulers c) was moved to Hiroshima after World War II d) has always been located in Osaka e) was moved to the newly-planned city of Nippon in 1946
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The capital of Japan was moved: A) from Honshu to Hokkaido in 1948 to assert claims to the Kurile islands lost to Russia at the end of World War II B) from Kyoto to Tokyo by the Meiji rulers C) to Hiroshima after World War II D) has always been located in Osaka E) to the newly-planned city of Nippon in 1946
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The country of the "people of Han" is_____. a) Mongolia b) China c) Japan d) Korea e) Tibet
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The most recent Special Economic Zone (SEZ) created by the Chinese government is _____________. a) Pudong b) Binhai c) Xiamen d) Chongqing e) Zhuhai
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The two major cities on the North China Plain are: A) Beijing and Shanghai B) Beijing and Tianjin C) Harbin and Xian D) Seoul and Osaka E) Singapore and Hong Kong
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Which colonial power controlled a large part of northeast China from 1937 to 1945? a) Great Britain b) Japan c) France d) Russia e) Germany
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Which of the following has NOT been important in the development of Shenzhen as an SEZ? a) proximity to Hong Kong b) the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development c) state-of-the-art port facilities d) investment of Overseas Chinese in its development e) the fastest urban growth rate in human history
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Which of these Special Economic Zones is located across the Huangpu River from Shanghai? a) Xiamen b) Pudong c) Shenzhen d) Shantou e) Hainan Island
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Which of these statements about Mongolia is INCORRECT? a) It is considered a buffer state. b) It wishes to be unified with China. c) It is landlocked. d) It has a population of about 3 million. e) It was once a domain of powerful nomadic people who challenged both Russia and China.
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. The dominant economic region of China, propelled by forces of globalization, is: A) the Sichuan Basin B) the Russian border zone C) the Pacific Rim D) the Three Gorges Dam area E) the Jakota Triangle
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During the nineteenth century all but which of the following countries had a "concession" in China. a) Germany b) France c) Spain d) Britain e) Russia
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Japan's natural landscapes_________________. a) resemble those of populous South Asia: wide alluvial valleys crowded by millions of farmers, plateau country elsewhere b) being tropical, consist of dense stands of forest and clearings of farmland c) are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium d) consist of all the usual landforms except mountains, which rarely occur in the Japanese archipelago
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Mao Zedong's proclamation creating the communist People's Republic of China was announced in _____________. a) 1911 b) 1925 c) 1949 d) 1976 e) 1997
c
Taiwan was at one time a colony of ______________. a) Russia b) the United States c) Japan d) the Netherlands e) Britain
c
The Gobi Desert is most closely associated with which Chinese region? A) the North China Plain B) Northeast China C) Inner Mongolia D) Xinjiang E) Xizang
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The Huang He _______________. a) drains the Xi/Pearl River Basin b) flows into the South China Sea c) almost encircles the Ordos Desert d) flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward its mouth at Shanghai e) originates in the Sichuan Basin
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The Huang He: A) drains the Xi/Pearl River Basin B) flows into the South China Sea C) almost encircles the Ordos Desert D) flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward its mouth at Shanghai E) originates in the Sichuan Basin
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The language spoken in Hong Kong and much of the Pearl River Delta is ______. a) Han Chinese (Mandarin) b) Tibetan c) Yue (Cantonese) d) Manchu (Tungus) e) Turkic (Uyghur)
c
The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the __________. a) Xi/Pearl b) Huang He c) Chang-Yangzi d) Amur e) Songhua
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The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the: A) Xi/Pearl B) Huang He C) Chang-Yangzi D) Amur E) Songhua
c
The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was _______________. a) defeat of North Korea, which was returned to the control of Japan b) victory for the South, which soon became communist c) a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country d) a short pause, followed by renewed war that still drags on to this day
c
The southernmost of China's three great rivers is the _______________. a) Huang He b) Chang-Yangzi c) Xi/Pearl d) Liao e) Amur
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The southernmost of China's three great rivers is the: A) Huang He B) Chang-Yangzi C) Xi/Pearl D) Liao E) Amur
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There is a dispute among China, Japan, and Taiwan over these islands in the East China Sea: a) Kurile Islands b) Okinawa Islands c) Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands d) Ryukyu Islands e) the Philippine Islands
c
Which city is located in the last outpost of the Republic of China, which was first proclaimed in 1912: A) Hong Kong B) Lhasa C) Taipei D) Macau
c
Which of the following is NOT considered an Asian Tiger? a) Hong Kong b) South Korea c) North Korea d) Taiwan e) Singapore
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Which of the following is NOT one of China's Autonomous Regions? a) Xizang b) Xinjiang c) Chongqing d) Inner Mongolia e) Guangxi Zhuang
c
China's current population is closest to _______________. a) 400 million b) 800 million c) 1.1 billion d) 1.3 billion e) 2.1 billion
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Japan's leading region of urbanization and industry (and agriculture as well) is the _______________. a) Kansai District b) Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto region c) Nagoya area d) Kanto Plain e) Kitakyushu conurbation
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Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, is located in the __________ District. a) Kanto b) Nobi c) Shikoku d) Kansai e) Seto Inland Sea
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Japan's unique modernization pathway was most likely assisted by _________. a) it being an island nation b) its wealth of land resources c) its relative location to other industrialized countries d) its homogeneous population e) its proximity to China
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North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of _______________. a) joint state capitalism b) high-mass-consumption economic development c) areal functional specialization d) regional complementarity e) industrial inertia
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South Korea's growth has resulted from an economic system described as ________________. a) communism b) laissez-faire capitalism c) globalization d) state capitalism e) socialism
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Which of the following is the Chinese name for Tibet? a) Pudong b) Xian c) Xinjiang d) Xizang e) Hainan
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Which of the following statements is incorrect? A) The capital of Taiwan is Taipei. B) Taiwan exports personal computers. C) More than 23 million people live on Taiwan. D) The Taiwanese cannot keep pace economically with the mainland Chinese. E) The Chungyang Mountains .
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. Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan's capital city was: A) Honshu B) Tokyo C) Edo D) Kansai E) Kyoto
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Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan's capital city was _____________. a) Honshu b) Tokyo c) Edo d) Kansai e) Kyoto
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China's largest city is ________________. a) Beijing b) Hong Kong c) Guangzhou d) Shenzhen e) Shanghai
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Guangdong Province faces the _________________. a) Yellow Sea b) Indian Ocean c) Bohai Gulf d) East Sea (Sea of Japan) e) South China Sea
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Japan's recent economic problems are a result of all of the following except: A) heavy dependence on foreign oil B) the rise of competing economic powers in East Asia C) financial mismanagement D) losses in investments made in other countries E) three major earthquakes since 1990 that resulted in 200,000 deaths and billions of yen in losses
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The region in Japan best situated to do business with Korea and China is _____________. a) the Kansai District b) the Kanto Plain c) the Nobi Plain d) the Tokaido (Tokyo-Hokkaido) Megalopolis e) Kitakyushu
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Two former colonial entities that were reunited with China during the late 1990s are ----------. a) Vietnam and Tibet b) Macau and Shenzhen c) Hong Kong and Shenzhen d) Hong Kong and Guangdong e) Macau and Hong Kong
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Which of the following is not a Shi? a) Beijing b) Chongqing c) Shanghai d) Chengdu e) Tianjin
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Which of the following is not located in Northeast China? A) the Liao River basin B) the country's Rustbelt C) the Songhua River basin D) the city of Harbin E) the ancient city of Xian
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Which of the following lies just across the former Chinese border from Hong Kong? a) Macau b) Canton c) Chang-Yangzi Delta d) Pudong e) Shenzhen
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Which of the following statements about Japan is incorrect? A) Relations with Russia are strained as a result of a longstanding dispute over the Kurile islands closest to Japan B) Relations with China are difficult because of memories of Japanese (unapologized-for) behavior during World War II C) The population of Japan is aging, thereby creating labor shortages D) Japanese tourists, seeing how those in the West live, are now less satisfied with life in Japan E) Japan has numerous ethnic minorities that create significant internal strife
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Which of the following statements is incorrect? A) Hong Kong is now a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. B) Hong Kong possesses no mineral resources. C) Hong Kong has many persons with entrepreneurial skills who originally came as refugees from Communist China. D) Before 1997 a significant proportion of China's foreign trade went through Hong Kong. E) As soon as China took over Hong Kong, the economies of both Hong Kong and Shenzhen took off.
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Which river is found in Guangdong Province? a) Huang He b) Yangzi c) Songhua d) Chang Jiang e) Pearl
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Which river is found in Guangdong Province? A) Huang He B) Yangzi C) Songhua D) Chang Jiang E) Pearl
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Xianggang _________________. a) is the Chinese name for Tibet b) is now directly connected by high-speed rail to Beijing c) is the capital city of Taiwan d) has its capital at Lhasa e) is the Chinese name for Hong Kong
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