Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14 Reading Questions

What types of practices did the Green Revolution introduce to South Asia?

Agricultural techniques involving high-yield crop varieties and heavy use of industrial fertilizers and pesticides.

Why is extremely extensive farming practiced in Japan?

Agriculture must share Japan's limited lowlands with cities and suburbs

How are recent migration trends changing the cultural landscape of Australia?

Approximately 28% of Australia's population is now foreign born.

Which of the following statements is correct regarding the population pyramids of Australia and the Solomon Islands?

Australia is growing slower than the Solomon Islands.

In which order were the following places settled by humans?

Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Hawaii

The majority of the native languages of Oceania belong to which language family?

Austronesian

Following independence from British rule in 1947, South Asia was partitioned into two separate countries: India and Pakistan. Which of the following statements best explains why these new countries' boundaries were drawn the way they were?

Boundaries were drawn in a way that would create one Hindu-majority and one Muslim-majority country.

Which two countries were once French colonies?

Cambodia and Vietnam

Which two countries in East Asia are sparring over the right to control the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands?

China and Japan

What ethnic group immigrated into Southeast Asia (peaking in the 19th century) where they now form a large urban minority?

Chinese

Which of the following energy sources supplies the bulk of China's energy needs?

Coal

The rapid economic expansion in China has benefitted which region of China the most?

Coastal cities and provinces have experienced the bulk of economic growth

What has been the main force driving deforestation in Malaysia?

Commercial logging for export

Where do most South Asians live?

Compact rural villages

The next major economic frontier in Oceania may be

Deep sea mining

Which of the following poses the biggest threat to the North China Plain?

Desertification

With which world region is the economic future of Australia and Oceania most closely linked?

East Asia

What is the objective of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?

Encourage geopolitical cooperation and regional unity.

South Asia's linguistic geography is diverse, but one language serves as the chief integrating language in the domain. What is this "neutral" language?

English

Why has Burma remained one of the least-developed Southeast Asian countries?

Ethnic and political conflict

Where would you most likely find "hutments" in Mumbai?

Formerly busy sidewalks or along busy roadways

The southeastern part of China, the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and the souther half of Japan all are within which climate zone?

Humid subtropical

Which nation of Southeast Asia is situated in a zone where earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions all pose a major risk?

Indonesia

How do urbanization patterns differ between South Korea and Japan?

Japan's urban population tends to be clustered together in megalopolises, whereas South Korea's urban population lives in a single primate city.

Which of the following statements best explains why Melanesia remains the poorest and least-developed part of Oceania?

Melanesia has reaped fewer benefits from tourism and from subsidies from colonial and ex-colonial powers than have other countries.

What is the dominant climate factor for most of South Asia?

Monsoon

What is the legal standing of native Hawaiians?

Native Hawaiians do not have sovereignty over their lands.

Juche, or "self-reliance," is the official state ideology of which country in East Asia?

North Korea

What is the main reason economic development has largely failed in North Korea?

North Korea remained devoted to a state-led economy that rejected globalization

All of the following animals on Australia are classified as marsupials except for the

Platypus

What group have been the most outspoken opponents of land claims filed by Aboriginal people in Australia with the passage of the Native Title Bill?

Ranchers

Which of the following activities dominates in rural Australia and New Zealand?

Ranching

What geographical solution has the government of Indonesia experimented with in its attempt to reduce the population density of the most populated parts of the country?

Relocating people from densely populated areas to less populated parts of the country.

Which of the following is required to engage in successful, sustainable swidden agriculture?

Rugged uplands with low population densities.

Japanese culture is most closely identified with which religious tradition?

Shinto

Why do geographers often classify Singapore as the entrepôt to Southeast Asia?

Singapore is a place where goods are imported, stores, and then transshipped to Southeast Asian countries and to other parts of the world.

Which of the following statements correctly differentiates the low islands of the Pacific from the high islands?

Soil on the low islands originated as coral.

The Fiji Islands are today a mix between the indigenous population and the descendants of the people the British imported as labor from which region of the world?

South Asia

The unifying language of the Philippines is essentially an updated version of which of the following languages?

Tagalog

Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) is the dominant religion in which trio of nations?

Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and Cambodia

What was the major consequence of the "opium wars"?

The Chinese were defeated and by the end of the 19th century foreign powers had carved out spheres of influence within a weakened China.

Which financial organization in Bangladesh has helped lift millions of women out of poverty?

The Grameen Bank

Where dies Southeast Asia's largest concentration of people live?

The Indonesian island of Java

Why might future economic conditions change in Laos?

The Laotian government is developing hydropower.

Which Southeast Asian country is the most susceptible to typhoons?

The Philippines

The Sikh faith is primarily found where in South Asia?

The Punjab region near the modern boundary between India and Pakistan.

How has religion and language shaped the tense political geography of Sri Lanka?

The Tamil Tigers waged a civil war against the largely Buddhist government of Sri Lanka before they were decisively defeated in 2009

Why has the United States adopted the Asia Pivot policy?

The United States is seeking to counter the influence of China (PRC) on the Pacific region.

Which of the following is FALSE regarding South Asia's physical environment?

The Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats form the northern boundary of South Asia and are the highest mountains in the region.

The primary result of the Vietnam War was

The defeat of the US backed South Vietnamese state and the reunification of the country under the leadership of North Vietnam and the communists.

Where is orographic rainfall most common in South Asia?

The foothills of the Himalayas and the Ghats.

The historical roots of the ongoing ethnic violence in Kashmir can be traced to which of the following events?

The partition of South Asia

The most linguistically diverse region of East Asia is

The southern region of China

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the regional geography of economic development in India?

The wealthier areas are located in the south and west, and the poorer areas are in the north and east.

Which of the following best describes the geopolitical state of the Korean Peninsula?

There is a division of Korea at the 38th parallel into Communist North Korea and non-Communist South Korea

What was the Chinese government's short-term objective in creating Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?

To attract foreign investment to increase export production

Atolls are low-lying islands made up of coral reefs and sand. With which of the following geologic processes are atolls most closely associated?

Volcanism

Which region of East Asia is underpopulated?

Western China

Which of the following is not cited as a reason why there are male-biased sex ratios across South Asia?

Widespread poverty which is equally shared across all of South Asia

Which statement is true regarding the religious geography of South Asia?

A predominantly Hindu India is flanked by Muslim Pakistan and Bangladesh