GEO Final

Match each country with its capital. Match each country with its capital.

1. Burma : Rangoon/Yangon 2. Laos : Vientaine 3. Cambodia : Phnom Penh 4. Vietnam : Hanoi 5. Philippines : Manila 1. Indonesia : Jakarta 2. Malaysia : Kuala Lumpur 3. Thailand : Bangkok 4. Brunei : Bandar Seri Begawan 5. Papua New Guinea : Port Morseby

Match the capital with the country. Match the physical region with its description.

1. Taipei : Taiwan 2. Beijing : China 3. Pyongyang : North Korea 4. Seoul : South Korea 5. Tokyo : Japan 6. Ulaanbaatar : Mongolia 1. Tibetan Plateaus : An uplifted massif in the Southwest of China 2. Japanese archipelago : Continental Margin of Plains, Hills, continental shelves, and islands 3. Roof of the World : Central Mountains and Plateaus of China and Mongolia 4. Ring of Fire : Backbone of unstable mountains and volcanic ranges

What was the 2015 East Asian population?

1.59 billion

How thick is the Asian Brown Cloud?

2 miles

How many people live in Tokyo?

35 million

What parallel was agreed to as the border between North Korea and South Korea?

38th parallel

After World War II, approximately how long did it take for Japan to return to its prewar economic levels of output?

5 years

What percent of women hold senior management positions in China?

51% Submit

The Pacific Rim economy accounts for how much of the world's GDP?

58%

What are female literacy rates in Southeast Asia?

85%

What is the largest and most notorious river for flooding in East Asia?

Huang He

This is a country made up of many island groups.

Indonesia

What country is an archipelago?

Indonesia

What country promotes two-child families through advertising grassroots leadership training and free distribution of birth-control pills and condoms?

Indonesia Submit

Noodles are the regional cuisine of what part of China?

Inner China- subhumid north Submit

Which of the following western regions is mostly a mixture of steppe and semi-desert?

Inner Mongolia

At the time leading up to World War II in the Pacific, which country had expanded its territorial control over which other countries in the region?

Japan over Korea and parts of China including Taiwan

Which location in East Asia experiences the broadest range of geological hazards?

Japan's east coast Submit

________ are Japanese business networks facilitated after World War II by the Japanese government in order to promote national recovery.

Keiretsu

What culture built the temple compound Angkor Wat and city of Angkor Thom?

Khmer

Currently, the youngest head of state in the world is ________ of ________.

Kim Jong-un/North Korea

What East Asian language has an entirely phonetic alphabet?

Korean Submit

What dynasty began the construction of the Great Wall?

Qin

Which dynasty provided stability for the Silk Road to link China to Central Asia, India, Rome and Byzantium?

Qin

What Japanese belief system is based on the sacred powers in every existing thing?

Shinto

What sea or ocean has competing claims over its islands by multiple Asian counties?

South China Sea

The ________ in East Asia is humid and subtropical.

Southern Regime

Which political leader led the 1911 revolution in China against the Qing dynasty?

Sun Yat-Sen

________ was a sustained attack on Chinese traditions and cultural practices.

The Cultural Revolution

What is the primary reason China refuses to allow Tibet to become autonomous?

The region is strategically important.

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of:

Tibetan Buddhism

Which of the following Outer China regions is a geological massif and has the youngest, highest plateau in the world?

Tibetan Plateau

This island was originally a Portuguese colony, but was added to Indonesia after independence in the 1970s.

Timor

What physical feature serves as a "safety-valve" overflow basin for flooding?

Tonle Sap Lake

What ethnic group in China practices Islam and has faced opposition from the government?

Uyghur

What country faced U.S. sanctions from 1975-1993?

Vietnam

The ________ was the first organized territorial state in China.

Xia dynasty

What is the "Ring of Fire"?

all of the above

Which regions are dominated by low hills covered by evergreen forest and the remaining land is paddy rice, sugarcane and hemp?

all of the above

What are the results of China's current economic model?

all of the above Submit

Which of the following are effects of the Green Revolution in East Asia?

all of the above Submit

Which of the following is true about Japan and colonization in the 19th century?

all of the above Submit

Why is Singapore the Asian Economic "Miracle"?

all of the above Submit

What were/are China's Special Administrative Regions?

autonomy of Macao and Hong Kong under China

What type of warfare was North Korea suspected of engaging in 2014?

cyber

Where has East Asian biodiversity thrived in the last decades?

demilitarized zone between North and South Korea

What did the 1868 Japanese Meiji Civil Code proclaim?

denial of legal rights for women

What political idea suggests that political unrest in one country can destabilize neighbors and start a chain of events?

domino theory

What was the major cause of deforestation in Southeast Asia?

export of hardwoods during colonial era

What was the Dutch "Culture System"?

farmers give 1/5 of their land to export crop production

The belief that the physical attributes of places can be analyzed and manipulated to improve the flow of cosmic energy that binds all living things is called:

feng shui Submit

Who was/were the Japanese shogun?

feudal lord appointed by emperor

The subhumid parts of East Asia are prone to:

flooding

What is Theravada Buddhism?

focused on monasticism and Pali rituals

How is China becoming influential in Africa? Choose all that apply.

foreign aid resource extraction

The Pacific Rim consists of 47 countries, some of them thousands of miles apart. What is the most important unifying characteristic of this "emerging region"?

global trade Submit

Japanese whalers hunt whales despite the global ban, based on what argument?

harvest is "research"

The most fundamental basis for the division between North and South Korea is ________.

ideological

Which of the following is the most serious threat to endangered wildlife in East Asia?

illegal trade

For what Southeast Asian resource did the expansion of automobile production in the early 20th century increase demand?

increase in rubber plantations Submit

Which of the following is true about the trade in animals and animal parts?

investors "bank" on extinction of elephants; tigers are wanted for medicine; Slow Loris is an endangered species Submit

What ended China's One Child policy?

lack of working-age young people

What delicate ecosystem is under threat from climate change and human encroachment?

mangrove forests

What resource base of Mongolia has been recently exploited?

minerals

What is Wallace's Line?

ocean trench separating megafauna

The newest energy source to be developed in Southeast Asia are biofuels, especially:

palm oil

Why are the wild orangutans of Borneo endangered?

palm oil plantations

What are hutongs?

small, traditional neighborhoods in China

The Northern Regime in East Asia is:

subhumid

The South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea are part of what water body?

the Pacific Ocean

One of the goals of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was:

to reduce national tariffs within region

What physical phenomena allowed for a wide trade network in the "Spice Islands"?

trade winds

The tumultuous tectonics of insular Southeast Asia account for all of the following except _____.

typhoons

Which of the following animals is extinct in Japan?

wolf

What is a traditional livelihood source in Tibet?

yaks

What European power forced the opium trade on China and profited from Chinese opium addiction?

Great Britain

The ________ is the dominant group in China.

Han

Which dynasty extended the Chinese empire westward?

Han

All of the following is true about Tibet and China, except:

Han Chinese are second class citizens in the region

Where does China purchase more than 1/3 of its oil?

Africa

ASEAN has given identity to Southeast Asia and strengthened its position geopolitically and in global markets. How and why are some ethnic and stateless groups finding their interests ignored or threatened by this integration?

All of the above are correct. Submit

In what way did China's experience of demographic transition resemble Japan's?

Both have resulted in a decline in working-age people.

Which colonizing power forced the opium trade on China in the 19th Century?

British

What three countries can be viewed from the "Golden Triangle"?

Burma, Thailand, Laos

This country became involved in the Korean War when the U.S. military pushed the North Korean forces back to its borders.

China

What country is the fastest-growing emitter of greenhouse gases in the world?

China

Timor-Leste has changed from a war torn nation to a fast growing economy, including a healthcare system with physicians trained in what country?

Cuba

Which ethnic group fled Laos to the U.S., Europe, and South America?

Hmong

In what way is climate change expected to influence industrial energy production in China?

Glacial shrinkage in the Himalayas will reduce hydropower flow to the Three Gorges Dam.

What desert dominates the topography of Mongolia?

Gobi

This country's government policy of Bumiputra explicitly discriminated against ethnic Chinese populations.

Malaysia

Most people in China speak this Chinese language.

Mandarin

Japanese print cartoon books are called:

Manga

________ was domesticated from wild species in more northerly subhumid regions of East Asia.

Millet

What Indigenous group in China has a unique folk culture that is being developed by the government for tourism?

Naxi

This country has the world's fifth-largest standing army.

North Korea

Which statement about women in East Asia is best supported by evidence presented in the chapter?

Participation of women in political and economic activities is widespread throughout East Asia, but significant gender gaps in income remain, and patriarchal authority continues to affect social life.

This country is primarily Christian.

Philippines

What is the new system of spelling Chinese words and names using the Latin alphabet of 26 letters called?

Pinyin system

What leader installed a cruel regime, suspended education and killed millions of his people between 1975-1979?

Pol Pot