FINAL GEOG
Which statement is true regarding the religious geography of South Asia?
A predominately Hindu India is flanked by Muslim Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Why is extremely intensive farming practiced in Japan?
Agriculture must share Japan's limited lowlands with cities and suburbs.
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 country and one Muslim-majority country.
Which two countries were once French colonies?
Cambodia and Vietnam
There is a division of Korea at the 38th parallel into Communist North Korea and non-Communist South Korea Submit
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
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
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 southern 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.
What is the dominant climate factor for most of South Asia?
Monsoon
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
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, stored, and then transshipped to Southeast Asian countries and to other parts of the world.
Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) is the dominant religion in which trio of nations?
Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and Cambodia Submit
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.
What financial organization in Bangladesh has helped lift millions of women out of poverty.
The Grameen Bank
Where does 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.
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 U.S. 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
Which of the following poses the biggest threat to the North China Plain?
Tsunamis
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
What was the Chinese government's short-term objective in creating Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?
to attract foreign investment to increase export production
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 has Burma remained one of the least-developed Southeast Asian countries?
ethnic and political conflict
